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mailbox.py open() calls don't set encoding #55204

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sdaoden mannequin opened this issue Jan 24, 2011 · 2 comments
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mailbox.py open() calls don't set encoding #55204

sdaoden mannequin opened this issue Jan 24, 2011 · 2 comments
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sdaoden mannequin commented Jan 24, 2011

BPO 10995
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  • bpo-9124: Mailbox module should use binary I/O, not text I/O
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title = "mailbox.py open() calls don't set encoding"
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    sdaoden mannequin commented Jan 24, 2011

    I'm using the en_GB.UTF-8 locale and thus the entire I/O layer defaults to use UTF-8 encoding. Perfect.
    The problem is that mailboxes are *not* and *never* in UTF-8, generally speaking, according to RFC mail standards!

    So i suggest that mailbox.py either offers additional 'encoding="latin1"' constructor arguments or always uses "latin1" in open() calls.
    This suffices to make mailbox.py usable -
    i.e., the mailbox will be loaded/saved without causing encoder errors, and email.py will behave correctly according to message *content* anyway!

    P.S.: i am far from being a Python(1) freak and feel a bit lost on *.python.org, so i might have blown the wrong whistles too load.
    Sorry, if this is the case.
    Thanks for python(1), it's damn slow and i love C and Perl. ;-)

    @sdaoden sdaoden mannequin added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Jan 24, 2011
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    bpo-9124 addresses the underlying problem here, so I'm closing this as a duplicate.

    @ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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