How do I decode unicode characters in the subject using email.message_from_string()?

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Wed Feb 25 11:00:16 EST 2009


En Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:40:31 -0200, Thorsten Kampe  
<thorsten at thorstenkampe.de> escribió:

> * Roy H. Han (Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:17:22 -0500)
>> Thanks, RDM, for stating the right approach.
>> Thanks, Steve, for teaching by example.
>>
>> I wonder why the email.message_from_string() method doesn't call
>> email.header.decode_header() automatically.
>
> And I wonder why you would think the header contains Unicode characters
> when it says "us-ascii" ("=?us-ascii?Q?"). I think there is a tendency
> to label everything "Unicode" someone does not understand.

And I wonder why you would think the header does *not* contain Unicode  
characters when it says "us-ascii"?. I think there is a tendency here  
too...

-- 
Gabriel Genellina




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