[issue4661] email.parser: impossible to read messages encoded in a different encoding

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

There are a couple of things I don't understand:

+* :class:`~email.generator.Generator` will convert message bodies that
+  have a :mailheader:`ContentTransferEncoding` of 8bit and a known charset to
+  instead have a :mailheader:`CotnentTransferEncoding` of ``QuotedPrintable``.

Why so?

+* All operations are on unicode strings.  Text inputs must be strings,
+  text outputs are strings.

This is a rather strange statement given that you are adding bytes-consuming and bytes-producing functions.

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