[Baypiggies] charsets in email headers

[Brent Tubbs]

Erg I should have read more carefully.  Disregard my complaint about
not having an example.

Thanks again,
Brent

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Brent Tubbs <brent.tubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the link, Jason.   I'd been staring at that page (as
> well as http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.charset.html) for a
> while before emailing the group, but it's over my head and there is no
> example for converting from one charset to another.  An example from
> someone who's done it would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks again,
> Brent
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Jason Culverhouse
> <jason at mischievous.org> wrote:
>> Right here...
>> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.header.html
>>
>> from email.header import decode_header
>> decode_header('=?windows-1252?Q?=5BInvitation=5D_dummy_event_4_=40_Tue_Aug_26_10pm_=96_11=3A?=')
>>
>> [('[Invitation] dummy event 4 @ Tue Aug 26 10pm \x96 11:', 'windows-1252')]
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> On Aug 25, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Brent Tubbs wrote:
>>
>>> I'm writing a Google App Engine app that accepts incoming emails using
>>> the free smtp2web.com service.  Things are generally working, but some
>>> (not all) subject lines in the emails look like this (this one's a
>>> Google Calendar event invitation):
>>>
>>>
>>> =?windows-1252?Q?=5BInvitation=5D_dummy_event_4_=40_Tue_Aug_26_10pm_=96_11=3A?=
>>>       =?windows-1252?Q?30pm_=28=22Schmobag=5FHogfather=22=29?=
>>>
>>> I've learned that that's got something to do with the subject being in
>>> the windows-1252 charset, but I'm mystified as to how to turn that
>>> into human-readable ASCII.  The python email module has a charset
>>> class that's supposed to help with this I think, but I don't know how
>>> to make it do what I need.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on the best way to turn the ugly string above into
>>> something nicer?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brent
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