def dedent_description(pkg_info):
    """
    Dedent and convert pkg_info['Description'] to Unicode.
    """
    description = pkg_info['Description']

    # Python 3 Unicode handling, sorta.
    surrogates = False
    if not isinstance(description, str):
        surrogates = True
        description = pkginfo_unicode(pkg_info, 'Description')

    description_lines = description.splitlines()
    description_dedent = '\n'.join(
        # if the first line of long_description is blank,
        # the first line here will be indented.
        (description_lines[0].lstrip(),
         textwrap.dedent('\n'.join(description_lines[1:])),
         '\n'))

    if surrogates:
        description_dedent = description_dedent \
            .encode("utf8") \
            .decode("ascii", "surrogateescape")

    return description_dedent

    Dedent and convert pkg_info['Description'] to Unicode.
    
product/gradle-plugin/src/main/python/wheel/metadata.py