Issue #13025: mimetypes is now reading MIME types using the UTF-8 encoding,

instead of the locale encoding.

Author: Victor Stinner

Lib/mimetypes.py

@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ def read(self, filename, strict=True):
         list of standard types, else to the list of non-standard
         types.
         """
-        with open(filename) as fp:
+        with open(filename, encoding='utf-8') as fp:
             self.readfp(fp, strict)
 
     def readfp(self, fp, strict=True):