In russian windows seven SP1, x32, installed from 2.7.1/2.7.2 MSI installer:

>>> import SimpleHTTPServer

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
    import SimpleHTTPServer
  File "C:\Python\lib\SimpleHTTPServer.py", line 27, in <module>
    class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
  File "C:\Python\lib\SimpleHTTPServer.py", line 204, in SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
    mimetypes.init() # try to read system mime.types
  File "C:\Python\lib\mimetypes.py", line 355, in init
    db.read_windows_registry()
  File "C:\Python\lib\mimetypes.py", line 259, in read_windows_registry
    for ctype in enum_types(mimedb):
  File "C:\Python\lib\mimetypes.py", line 249, in enum_types
    ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x!
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)