david <davidventur...@gmail.com> added the comment: In my case I was doing tests with "contraseña" which is (spanish for password) and it failed
On June 14, 2018 8:36:30 AM GMT+02:00, Tal Einat <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > >Tal Einat <talei...@gmail.com> added the comment: > >It would be extremely helpful to have some test cases that actually >work for users but fail with smtplib. So far we have no actual >examples, likely due to these being passwords. > >> Note: it is definitely the case, regardless of what the RFC says, >that binary passwords need to be supported. > >I'm not sure what you mean by "binary". Do you mean 8-bit characters, >a.k.a. bytes? > >> utf-8 should probably be used as the default encoding for string >passwords, rather than ascii. > >It is also possible that the appropriate encoding here is "latin1" >a.k.a. ISO-8859-1 encoding. This specifically includes many >specialized versions of latin characters, e.g. those with German >umlauts as mentioned in the duplicate issue #33741. And it could even >be the very common Windows-1252 encoding: "It is probably the most-used >8-bit character encoding in the world." (Wikipedia) > >---------- > >_______________________________________ >Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> ><https://bugs.python.org/issue29750> >_______________________________________ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue29750> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
