Mails & encoding

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:46:02 -0300, Lord Eldritch
<lord_eldritch at yahoo.co.uk> escribió:

> I have a CGI written in Python to process a form a read/write a text  
> file (a
> minimal database). It runs in a Linux box with and it looks all the  
> encoding is UTF8. [...]

> - Related to the former one: the CGI sends an email with stress marks and
> other characters. I can read it with out any problem in my Kmail client
> because it detects the encoding. But I saw that most of the users are  
> gonna
> read it in a webmail service where the characters (UTF8) are not  
> recognized.
> Can I force a encoding when I send an email? kind of:
>
> mail(adress,'My title', mytext.encode'iso9865')

Yes, you can, and you should. Make sure the Content-Type (and probably
Content-Transfer-Encoding too) header fields are correct. How to set them,
depends on how you build the email to be sent (and the Python version in
use).

-- 
Gabriel Genellina