SMTPHandler and Unicode

[Chris Withers]

norbert wrote:
> Your package has the same unicode problem :
> import logging,logging.handlers
> from mailinglogger.MailingLogger import MailingLogger
> mailingLogger = MailingLogger(mailhost=('smtp.example.com',
> 25),fromaddr='toto at example.com',toaddrs=('toto at example.com',))
> LOG = logging.getLogger()
> LOG.addHandler(mailingLogger)
> LOG.error(u"sans accent")
> LOG.error(u"accentu\u00E9")
> 
> --> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9'
> in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

Interesting, I don't know what the logging framework's position is on 
unicode...

What happens when you try the same logging with just a FileHandler 
registered? What encoding does the log file use?

cheers,

Chris

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