[issue12454] mailbox: use ASCII to read/write .mh_sequences files

STINNER Victor added the comment: I kept Python 2.7 and 3.2 unchanged because I'm not completly sure that the fix is correct :-) -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue12454] mailbox: use ASCII to read/write .mh_sequences files

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5ea81e4c58a7 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Close #12454: The mailbox module is now using ASCII, instead of the locale http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5ea81e4c58a7 -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rej

[issue12454] mailbox: use ASCII to read/write .mh_sequences files

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[issue12454] mailbox: use ASCII to read/write .mh_sequences files

New submission from STINNER Victor : The MH class uses the locale encoding to read and write .mh_sequences files. According to R. David Murray, ASCII can be safetly used instead. Extract of our discussion on IRC: bitdancer> haypo: that's one of the cases where using locale is probab