[issue8898] The email package should defer to the codecs module for all aliases

[Michele Orrù]

Michele Orrù <maker.py at gmail.com> added the comment:

Sorry, I was told that email the bugtracker could not work properly.


> > - mcbs has something broken in its imports;

> mbcs is only available on Windows.
So, what do you prefer? Add a check for sys.platform, or just skip it?

> > - tactis module is not present.

> I'm not sure what happened here: either the alias entry is wrong
> or the codec module was not committed.

> In either case, no one has complained about this encoding not working,
> so we can probably just remove it from the alias table. See
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1251921 for a similar report and
> discussion.

I don't have such autority, and probably such a choice will require a discussion on python-dev. So I'm +1 for just skipping it for now (with a XXX comment on the right maybe).

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