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 b476065..b852245 100644
--- a/Lib/email/Charset.py
+++ b/Lib/email/Charset.py
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
'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