CherryPy broken Basic-Auth (for non-ISO-8859-1 strings) - Fix stuck with attempt of a library clean-up

Hello

I'm using CherryPy @work and found out that there is a problem when a 
browser sends their Basic-Auth string encoded in UTF-8. I've documented the 
behaviour on Stackoverflow 
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48009727/cherrypy-allways-decodes-basic-auth-with-iso-8859-1>and 
opend a Github Issue <https://github.com/cherrypy/cherrypy/issues/1680>.
Everthing felt like we could work out the issue, until it was found there 
was a duplicate authentication modul 
<https://github.com/cherrypy/cherrypy/issues/1688> which needs some merging 
and deprecating first. 

After a month of further changes, both efforts have come to a full stop. 
Now two addional months later there have been no progress on any of those 
two issues.

I know this is opensource. I know that, generally speaking, I can create my 
own branch and fix it to my liking. I'm willing to provide improvements, 
but I have no clue what the master-plan for the de-duplication of the 
authentication module is and thus don't know how to help there,

I have my supriors asking how/if this issue is progessing and I can't give 
them a good answer. Right now I'm considering of switching framework 
because I fear that this is issue will never be fixed or that it will 
emerge to late to be useful.

*My question:*
Did I miss anything? Are there any options I've missed? Did anybody had 
similar issues?


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