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

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

Not in email5.  The RFC says that if the charset parameter isn't known you just pass it through.  In email6 we will be making a more careful distinction between errors that should be passed silently per the RFC, and ones that should be noisy because the API in question is being used to create the message ab-initio.  (In email5 the exact same machinery is used to create a message from parsed source as is used to create a message programatically, resulting in the silent passing of certain errors that should really be noisy.)

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