Why doesn't this work: from email.MIMEText import MIMEText msg = MIMEText(u'\u043a\u0438\u0440\u0438\u043b\u0438\u0446\u0430') msg.set_charset('utf-8') msg.as_string() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.4/email/Message.py", line 129, in as_string g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/email/Generator.py", line 82, in flatten self._write(msg) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/email/Generator.py", line 113, in _write self._dispatch(msg) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/email/Generator.py", line 139, in _dispatch meth(msg) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/email/Generator.py", line 180, in _handle_text payload = cset.body_encode(payload) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/email/Charset.py", line 366, in body_encode return email.base64MIME.body_encode(s) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/email/base64MIME.py", line 136, in encode enc = b2a_base64(s[i:i + max_unencoded]) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-7: ordinal not in range(128)
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