[New-bugs-announce] [issue43732] PEP 597: mailcap uses locale encoding

[Inada Naoki]

New submission from Inada Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com>:

mailcap.getcaps() uses locale encoding.
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/c8e5eb904e12010d2302364e1037c24a30f5e241/Lib/mailcap.py#L33

As my understanding, RFC 1524 uses only ASCII characters.
Can we change the encoding to ASCII or UTF-8?

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 390231
nosy: methane
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: PEP 597: mailcap uses locale encoding
versions: Python 3.10

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