Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Robert Brewer writes:
Syntactically, there's no sense in providing:
Message.set_header('Subject', 'Some text', encoding='utf-16')
...since you could more clearly write the same as:
Message.set_header('Subject', 'Some text'.encode('utf-16'))
Which you now must *parse* and guess the encoding to determine how to RFC-2047-encode the binary mush. I think the encoding parameter is necessary here.
Indeed.
But it would be far easier to do all the encoding at once in an output() or serialize() method. Do different headers need different encodings?
You can have multiple encodings within a single header (and a naïve
"can" and "should" are two very different things. When is it even a good idea to have more than one encoding in a single header? Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk