> What are these unsubstantiated theories that Google does not decode 8bit
encoded MIME messages for security reasons.....



Strong Typing (and Encoding) are pretty core to python. Accepting all
codings is actually not common in most functions.  

This may not seem like a security thing, but it is certainly a Testing
overhead, and a potential outputs issue (plus all the dependencies then have
to support the encoding as well.  There are a number of things that Python
errors horribly if there is a non-standard or unexpected encoding on a
character.  It's a pain in the ass, but it is the way of the world.

 

 

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