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Author vstinner
Recipients sandro.tosi, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date 2011-09-20.23:07:07
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On Debian and Ubuntu, /etc/mime.types file is pure ASCII, but on Fedora 15 it contains a non-ASCII character, ³ (U+00B3), in the line:
"application/vnd.geocube+xml                     g3 g³"

And the file is encoded in UTF-8.

That's why Python should read this file from UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding, because the locale encoding can be ASCII. Attached patch implements this idead.

I think that it is a bug and so it should also be fixed in Python 3.2.

(Python 2.7 reads the file in binary mode, it doesn't care of the encoding.)
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Date User Action Args
2011-09-20 23:07:07vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, terry.reedy, sandro.tosi
2011-09-20 23:07:07vstinnersetmessageid: <1316560027.85.0.800562759244.issue13025@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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