Laszlo Nagy wrote: >However, there are malformed emails and I have to put them into the >database. What should I do with this: [...] >There is no encoding given in the subject but it contains 0x92. When I >try to insert this into the database, I get:
This is indeed malformed email. The content type in the header specifies iso-8859-1, but this looks like Windows code page 1252, where character \x92 is a single right quote character (unicode \x2019). As the majority of the mail clients out there are Windows-based, and as far as I can tell many of them get the encoding wrong, I'd simply try to decode as CP1252 on error, especially if the content-type claims iso-8859-1. Many Windows mail clients consider iso-8859-1 equivalent to 1252 (it's not; the former doesn't use code points in the range \x8n and \x9n, the latter does.) Regards, Gertjan. -- Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
