Merged in goal/distribute (pull request #38)

decode manifest bytes(utf-8) to string first if py version is 3

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branch : distribute
extra : rebase_source : 785dba80ce819ec9124371c3781a0a607eaa1ff5

setuptools/command/easy_install.py

@@ -1867,7 +1867,10 @@ def get_script_args(dist, executable=sys_executable, wininst=False):
 
 def load_launcher_manifest(name):
     manifest = pkg_resources.resource_string(__name__, 'launcher manifest.xml')
-    return manifest % vars()
+    if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+        return manifest % vars()
+    else:
+        return manifest.decode('utf-8') % vars()
 
 def rmtree(path, ignore_errors=False, onerror=auto_chmod):
     """Recursively delete a directory tree.