help with unicode email parse

[Diez B. Roggisch]

neoedmund schrieb:
> i want to get the subject from email and construct a filename with the
> subject.
> but tried a lot, always got error like this:
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 4:
> ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> 
> 	msg = email.message_from_string( text )
> 	title = decode_header( msg["Subject"] )
> 	title= title[0][0]
> 	#title=title.encode("utf8")
> 	print title
> 	fn = ""+path+"/"+stamp+"-"+title+".mail"
> 
> 
> the variable "text"  come from sth like this:
> ( header, msg, octets ) = a.retr( i )
> text= list2txt( msg )
> def list2txt( l ):
> 	return reduce( lambda x, y:x+"\r\n"+y, l )
> 
> anyone can help me out? thanks.

Where does the exception occur?

Diez