Removed non-ascii character from author string

[monkut]

Trying to install python-social-auth on a system where the default encoding is NOT ascii or latin1, installation fails with UnicodeDecodeError.

It seems that the PKG-INFO format requires that header values are in ASCII following RFC-822. (I'm not sure, but it seems that PKG-INFO is auto-generated from this setup.py).

My appologies to Matias.

C:\Python33\Scripts>python3 pip-3.3-script.py install python-social-auth
Downloading/unpacking python-social-auth
Downloading python-social-auth-0.1.17.tar.gz (71kB): 71kB downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package python-social-auth

Cleaning up...
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pip-1.4.1-py3.3.egg\pip\basecommand.py", line 134, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pip-1.4.1-py3.3.egg\pip\commands\install.py", line 236, in run
requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pip-1.4.1-py3.3.egg\pip\req.py", line 1139, in prepare_files
req_to_install.assert_source_matches_version()
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pip-1.4.1-py3.3.egg\pip\req.py", line 394, in assert_source_matches_version
version = self.installed_version
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pip-1.4.1-py3.3.egg\pip\req.py", line 390, in installed_version
return self.pkg_info()['version']
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pip-1.4.1-py3.3.egg\pip\req.py", line 357, in pkg_info
data = self.egg_info_data('PKG-INFO')
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pip-1.4.1-py3.3.egg\pip\req.py", line 297, in egg_info_data
data = fp.read()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'cp932' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 184: illegal multibyte sequence

[omab]

UTF-8 not supported?

[monkut]

Unfortunately, pip is using the system's native encoding, and not trying to decode via utf8.
I suppose this could be considered a bug in pip, but the PKG-INFO format seems to define ASCII as the encoding.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0241/

The PKG-INFO file format is a single set of RFC-822 headers
parseable by the rfc822.py module.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt

Each header field can be viewed as a single, logical line of
ASCII characters, comprising a field-name and a field-body.

[monkut]

I would think this would install fine on the majority of "western" machines, but this is on a japanese win7 installation.

[omab]

Thanks!