[issue3714] nntplib module broken by str to unicode conversion

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

Ok for UTF-8 which is a superset of ASCII and raise an error when 
trying to decode Latin1 or KOI-8.

> You need to have a possibility to change encoding after object 
creation

If you share a connection for the different groups, you will have to 
take care of the side effets of set_encoding(). But if you consider 
that set_encoding() is a must-have, ok, forget my patch (because using 
makefile(), it's not possible to change the charset) ;-)

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