From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:06:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: CHARSETS: Add faux '8bit' encoding for representing raw 8-bit data for
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~3790
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7cd724049f3d6c741dc3d7d3b652ba9a83481e5d;p=python

CHARSETS: Add faux '8bit' encoding for representing raw 8-bit data for
which we know nothing else.
---

diff --git a/Lib/email/Charset.py b/Lib/email/Charset.py
index b47606501d..b852245b00 100644
--- a/Lib/email/Charset.py
+++ b/Lib/email/Charset.py
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ CHARSETS = {
     'iso-2022-jp': (BASE64,    None,    None),
     'koi8-r':      (BASE64,    BASE64,  None),
     'utf-8':       (SHORTEST,  BASE64, 'utf-8'),
+    # We're making this one up to represent raw unencoded 8-bit
+    '8bit':        (None,      BASE64, 'utf-8'),
     }
 
 # Aliases for other commonly-used names for character sets.  Map