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[IO] remove outdated register_cp65001() function

cp65001 is an alias for utf-8 since Python 3.8
and was added to the codecs table in Python 3.3 already

https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html
https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/codecs.html

Change-Id: I35277ca3d4a018cc4673c5ac84a8e89e4026cfd0
---
M pywikibot/userinterfaces/win32_unicode.py
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pywikibot/userinterfaces/win32_unicode.py b/pywikibot/userinterfaces/win32_unicode.py
index 7962408..4b858de 100755
--- a/pywikibot/userinterfaces/win32_unicode.py
+++ b/pywikibot/userinterfaces/win32_unicode.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """Stdout, stderr and argv support for unicode."""
 #
-# (C) Pywikibot team, 2012-2018
+# (C) Pywikibot team, 2012-2021
 #
 ##############################################
 # Support for unicode in Windows cmd.exe
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 # Licensed under both CC-BY-SA and the MIT license.
 #
 ################################################
-import codecs
 import sys
+
 from contextlib import suppress
 from ctypes import Structure, byref
 from ctypes import c_void_p as LPVOID
@@ -172,13 +172,6 @@
           file=original_stderr)
 
 
-def register_cp65001():
-    """Register codecs cp65001 as utf-8."""
-    # Work around <https://bugs.python.org/issue6058>
-    codecs.register(lambda name: name == 'cp65001'
-                    and codecs.lookup('utf-8') or None)
-
-
 def force_truetype_console(h_stdout):
     """Force the console to use a TrueType font (Vista+)."""
     TMPF_TRUETYPE = 0x04
@@ -331,7 +324,3 @@
                   .format(e))
 
     return stdin, stdout, stderr, argv
-
-
-if OSWIN32:
-    register_cp65001()

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