bpo-41048: mimetypes should read the rule file using UTF-8, not the locale encoding (GH-20998)
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Victor Terrón
Pablo Galindo
Richard M. Tew
+Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy
Tobias Thelen
Christian Theune
Févry Thibault
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-06-20-10-16-57.bpo-41048.hEXB-B.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-06-20-10-16-57.bpo-41048.hEXB-B.rst
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+:func:`mimetypes.read_mime_types` function reads the rule file using UTF-8 encoding, not the locale encoding.
+Patch by Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy.
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