Email headers and non-ASCII characters

[Max M]

Christoph Haas skrev:
> Hello, everyone...
> 
> I'm trying to send an email to people with non-ASCII characters in their 
> names. A recpient's address may look like:
> 
> "Jörg Nørgens" <joerg at nowhere>
> 
> My example code:
> 
> =================================
> def sendmail(sender, recipient, body, subject):
>    message = MIMEText(body)
>    message['Subject'] = Header(subject, 'iso-8859-1')
>    message['From'] = Header(sender, 'iso-8859-1')
>    message['To'] = Header(recipient, 'iso-8859-1')
> 
>    s = smtplib.SMTP()
>    s.connect()
>    s.sendmail(sender, recipient, message.as_string())
>    s.close()
> =================================
> 
> However the Header() method encodes the whole expression in ISO-8859-1:
> 
> =?iso-8859-1?q?=22J=C3=B6rg_N=C3=B8rgens=22_=3Cjoerg=40nowhere=3E?=
> 
> However I had expected something like:
> 
> "=?utf-8?q?J=C3=B6rg?= =?utf-8?q?_N=C3=B8rgens?=" <joerg at nowhere>
> 
> Of course my mail transfer agent is not happy with the first string 


Why offcourse? But it seems that you are passing the Header object a 
utf-8 encoded string, not a latin-1 encoded.

You are telling the header the encoding. Not asking it to encode.

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