Issue #12037: Fix test_email for desktop Windows.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
index e11194b..904c06a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
@@ -180,8 +180,8 @@
 
     def test_byte_message_rfc822_only(self):
         # Make sure new bytes header parser also passes this.
-        with openfile('msg_46.txt', 'rb') as fp:
-            msgdata = fp.read()
+        with openfile('msg_46.txt') as fp:
+            msgdata = fp.read().encode('ascii')
         parser = email.parser.BytesHeaderParser()
         msg = parser.parsebytes(msgdata)
         out = BytesIO()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8f2b66e..3961ef9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -314,6 +314,8 @@
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #12037: Fix test_email for desktop Windows.
+
 - Issue #15507: test_subprocess's test_send_signal could fail if the test
   runner were run in an environment where the process inherited an ignore
   setting for SIGINT.  Restore the SIGINT handler to the desired