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Running Windows 8 (64-bit) and Python 2.7.6 (64-bit).
> python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
 "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
 exec code in run_globals
 File "C:\Python27\lib\SimpleHTTPServer.py", line 27, in <module>
 class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
 File "C:\Python27\lib\SimpleHTTPServer.py", line 208, in SimpleHTTPRequestHand
ler
 mimetypes.init() # try to read system mime.types
 File "C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 358, in init
 db.read_windows_registry()
 File "C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 258, in read_windows_registry
 for subkeyname in enum_types(hkcr):
 File "C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 249, in enum_types
 ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x!
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd7 in position 2: ordinal
not in range(128)