SMTPHandler and Unicode

[norbert]

On 5 juil, 14:32, Chris Withers <ch... at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> 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='t... at example.com',toaddrs=('t... 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?
>

a FileHandler works as expected, the log file being UTF-8 encoded. The
SMTPHandler is the only logger I know with this problem, maybe
connected to SMTPLib implementation ?