R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:

You are indeed misunderstanding.  The docs say:

If False, follow RFC 5322, supporting non-ASCII characters in headers by 
encoding them as “encoded words”. If True, follow RFC 6532 and use utf-8 
encoding for headers. Messages formatted in this way may be passed to SMTP 
servers that support the SMTPUTF8 extension (RFC 6531).

That is, when the flag is False, encoded words may be used, which is what the 
=?utf-8?q?....?= constructs are.  If it is True, those are *not* used, but 
instead utf8 character encoding is used, which would look on your terminal like 
the international characters themselves, not encoded stuff.

So, what you are seeing is the DKIM header getting re-encoded using encoded 
words in order to make it fit in the standard line length for email headers (78 
characters max).  The fact that that wasn't happening before was actually a bug 
in the folder that was fixed by the changeset you cite.

You can get the behavior you want by setting the policy control 'refold_source' 
to 'none', or changing max_line_length to some value larger than you expect 
DKIM headers to be (or to None, which means don't fold).

If the standard DKIM headers really are not respecting the standard default 
email header line length, that is a very sad thing.

I think perhaps the default value of refold_source was a poor choice, and we 
should have gone with none.  Changing that could be discussed, but since it 
changes behavior it may be controversial.

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