Problems with email.Generator.Generator

[Chris Withers]

Manlio Perillo wrote:
> Try with:
> 
> msg = MIMEText(
>      u'Some text with chars that need encoding: \xa3',
>      _charset='utf-8',
>      )
> 
> 
> and you will obtain the error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#4>", line 3, in -toplevel-
>     _charset='utf-8',
>   File "C:\Python2.4\lib\email\MIMEText.py", line 28, in __init__
>     self.set_payload(_text, _charset)
>   File "C:\Python2.4\lib\email\Message.py", line 218, in set_payload
>     self.set_charset(charset)
>   File "C:\Python2.4\lib\email\Message.py", line 260, in set_charset
>     self._payload = charset.body_encode(self._payload)
>   File "C:\Python2.4\lib\email\Charset.py", line 366, in body_encode
>     return email.base64MIME.body_encode(s)
>   File "C:\Python2.4\lib\email\base64MIME.py", line 136, in encode
>     enc = b2a_base64(s[i:i + max_unencoded])
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in
> position 41: ordinal not in range(128)

OK, but I fail to see how replacing one unicode error with another is 
any help... :-S

Chris

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