[Email-SIG] bug report

[R. David Murray]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:37:26 +0200, Tobias Koeck <tobias.koeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 40: ordinal 
> not in range(128)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 588, in 
> _send_mails
>      attachment_name = attachment_names[i])
>    File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/smtp.py", line 179, in 
> compose_mail
>      attachment_name=attachment_name)
>    File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/smtp.py", line 29, in create_mail
>      msg = MIMEText(text)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/email/mime/text.py", line 30, in __init__
>      self.set_payload(_text, _charset)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/email/message.py", line 224, in set_payload
>      self.set_charset(charset)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/email/message.py", line 260, in set_charset
>      self._payload = self._payload.encode(charset.output_charset)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in 
> position 40: ordinal not in range(128)

Please submit a bug report at bugs.python.org with additional
details if you can (ie: what was the input to MIMEText that
triggered this error, and what version of python are you
using?)

--David