[issue4871] zipfile can't decrypt

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

I created small archive with a password using zip 2.32 (Ubuntu Gutsy). 
The unicode flag is not set and so ASCII charset is used to encode the 
password. But my password was an unicode password using non-ASCII 
characters and so I get an UnicodeEncodeError ('ascii' codec can't 
encode character u'\xe9' ...). The user (me) doesn't expect such error 
here :-/

If I encode the unicode password to bytes using 
password.encode('utf-8'), it works as expected. So I would prefer to 
just reject unicode for the password. Attached patch implements that.

Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12722/zipfile_no_unicode_pasword.patch

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