[Email-SIG] encoding To headers

[Stuart Bishop]

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Wichert Akkerman wrote:
| It's been a month since I posted this; can I safely assume nobody knows
| the answer or is it just not possible?

I never saw your original message sorry.

There is code that will correctly encode and decode email addresses at
http://stuartbishop.net/Software/EmailAddress. It handles the case you
mention, as well as handling Unicode domain names if you should ever
actually see one.

|>I am trying to figure out how to use an 'internationaled' To-header but
|>not succeeding so far. The basic documented approach does not work:
|>
|>
|>>>>mail["From"]=email.Header.Header(, "utf-8")
|>>>>print mail.as_string()
|>
|>[...]
|>From: =?utf-8?b?dMODwrhzdGk=?=
|>
|>this is not allowed by the RFCs: the address must not be encoded. Using
|>quoted-printable would fix this but I can not find any documentation
|>as to how to do that.
|>
|>All current documentation mentions that specifying encoders is
|>deprecated, but without setting them the email module seems to insist on
|>using base64 encoding.
|>
|>Wichert.


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