[issue15372] Python is missing alternative for common quoting character

2012-07-16 Thread Luca Fabbri
New submission from Luca Fabbri : Using the unicodedata.decomposition function on characters like \u201c and \u201d I didn't get back the classic quote character ("). This is a very common error when text is taken from Microsoft Word (where in italian language a couple of quoting ch

[issue12840] "maintainer" value clear the "author" value when register

2011-08-25 Thread Luca Fabbri
Luca Fabbri added the comment: I'm quite sure that after gettint ownership on an already existent package (with a different author inside) and I added the maintainer (with my name) I get the author override. But maybe I don't remember exactly... Is not simpler (to understand) to k

[issue12840] "maintainer" value clear the "author" value when register

2011-08-25 Thread Luca Fabbri
New submission from Luca Fabbri : I reported this problem in the pypi site issue tracker (issue 3396924): https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=513503&aid=3396924&group_id=66150 However it seems that is a python bug. If in one package's setup.py I provide maint