[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry

[Daniel Szoska]

Daniel Szoska added the comment:

Martin: I had the same problem after upgrading to 2.7.6.

System here: German XP 32 Bit

I used the solution from Alexandr with sitecustomize.py (with cp1252) and it works fine for me.

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