[issue6734] Imap lib implicit conversion from bytes to string

[STINNER Victor]

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

IMAP4 protocol uses bytes, not characters. There is no "standard
charset", so you have to encode (manually) your login and password as
bytes. login method prototype:
  IMAP4.login(login: bytes, password: bytes)

You server may use UTF-8, but another server may use ISO-8859-1 or any
other charset.

The documentation should explain why the Python library uses bytes and
not "simply" characters.

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