From e89509f7de02d116b97715d4d8637ea24faa9419 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jason R. Coombs" Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 10:23:51 -0400 Subject: Add changelog entry. Ref #1702. --- changelog.d/1735.breaking.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 changelog.d/1735.breaking.rst diff --git a/changelog.d/1735.breaking.rst b/changelog.d/1735.breaking.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..448730c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/1735.breaking.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +When parsing setup.cfg files, setuptools now requires the files to be encoded as UTF-8. Any other encoding will lead to a UnicodeDecodeError. This change removes support for specifying an encoding using a 'coding: ' directive in the header of the file, a feature that was introduces in 40.7. Given the recent release of the aforementioned feature, it is assumed that few if any projects are utilizing the feature to specify an encoding other than UTF-8. -- cgit v1.2.3