email 8bit encoding

[rurpy]

How, using Python-3.3's email module, do I "flatten" (I think
that's the right term) a Message object to get utf-8 encoded
body with the headers:
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
when the message payload was set to a python (unicode) string?
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