def parse_cookie(header, charset='utf-8', errors='replace', cls=None):
    """Parse a cookie.  Either from a string or WSGI environ.

    Per default encoding errors are ignored.  If you want a different behavior
    you can set `errors` to ``'replace'`` or ``'strict'``.  In strict mode a
    :exc:`HTTPUnicodeError` is raised.

    .. versionchanged:: 0.5
       This function now returns a :class:`TypeConversionDict` instead of a
       regular dict.  The `cls` parameter was added.

    :param header: the header to be used to parse the cookie.  Alternatively
                   this can be a WSGI environment.
    :param charset: the charset for the cookie values.
    :param errors: the error behavior for the charset decoding.
    :param cls: an optional dict class to use.  If this is not specified
                       or `None` the default :class:`TypeConversionDict` is
                       used.
    """
    if isinstance(header, dict):
        header = header.get('HTTP_COOKIE', '')
    elif header is None:
        header = ''

    # If the value is an unicode string it's mangled through latin1.  This
    # is done because on PEP 3333 on Python 3 all headers are assumed latin1
    # which however is incorrect for cookies, which are sent in page encoding.
    # As a result we
    if isinstance(header, text_type):
        header = header.encode('latin1', 'replace')

    if cls is None:
        cls = TypeConversionDict

    def _parse_pairs():
        for key, val in _cookie_parse_impl(header):
            key = to_unicode(key, charset, errors, allow_none_charset=True)
            val = to_unicode(val, charset, errors, allow_none_charset=True)
            yield try_coerce_native(key), val

    return cls(_parse_pairs())
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