R. David Murray added the comment:
Issue 9124 addresses the underlying problem here, so I'm closing this as a
duplicate.
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nosy: +r.david.murray
resolution: -> duplicate
stage: -> committed/rejected
status: open -> closed
superseder: -> Mailbox module should use binary I/O, not tex
New submission from Steffen Daode Nurpmeso :
I'm using the en_GB.UTF-8 locale and thus the entire I/O layer defaults to use
UTF-8 encoding. Perfect.
The problem is that mailboxes are *not* and *never* in UTF-8, generally
speaking, according to RFC mail standards!
So i suggest that mailbox.py
