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diff --git a/Lib/mimetools.py b/Lib/mimetools.py
index 8c1cc19..45d9d32 100644
--- a/Lib/mimetools.py
+++ b/Lib/mimetools.py
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ def choose_boundary():
# Subroutines for decoding some common content-transfer-types
+# Input and output must be files opened in binary mode
def decode(input, output, encoding):
"""Decode common content-transfer-encodings (base64, quopri, uuencode)."""
@@ -157,7 +158,7 @@ def decode(input, output, encoding):
import uu
return uu.decode(input, output)
if encoding in ('7bit', '8bit'):
- return output.write(input.read())
+ return output.write(input.read().decode("Latin-1"))
if encoding in decodetab:
pipethrough(input, decodetab[encoding], output)
else: