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Author	vstinner
Recipients	Dmitry.Jemerov, Roman.Evstifeev, Vladimir Iofik, aclover, brian.curtin, eric.araujo, frankoid, kaizhu, r.david.murray, vldmit, vstinner
Date	2012年12月06日.14:53:31
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Message-id	<1354805611.38.0.155250764983.issue9291@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> File "c:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 250, in enum_types > ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x! > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) The encoding is wrong. We should read the registry using Unicode, or at least use the correct encoding. The correct encoding is the ANSI code page: sys.getfilesystemencoding(). Can you please try with: default_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding() ? > python 3.1.2 mimetypes initialization also fails in redhat linux: (...) In Python 3.3, MimeTypes.read() opens files in UTF-8. The issue #13025 explains why UTF-8 is used instead the locale encoding, or another encoding. I see that read_mime_types() uses the locale encoding, it looks like a bug, it should also use UTF-8.

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> File "c:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 250, in enum_types
> ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x!
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
The encoding is wrong. We should read the registry using Unicode, or at least use the correct encoding. The correct encoding is the ANSI code page: sys.getfilesystemencoding().
Can you please try with: default_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding() ?
> python 3.1.2 mimetypes initialization also fails in redhat linux: (...)
In Python 3.3, MimeTypes.read() opens files in UTF-8. The issue #13025 explains why UTF-8 is used instead the locale encoding, or another encoding.
I see that read_mime_types() uses the locale encoding, it looks like a bug, it should also use UTF-8.

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