> 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()
...
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-7:
> ordinal not in range(128)
It's a real shame that unicode support in the python library is very weak
sometimes...
Anyway I solved my problem by patching email.Charset
--- Charset.py~ 2005-11-24 04:20:09.000000000 +0100
+++ Charset.py 2005-11-24 04:21:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@
"""Convert a string from the input_codec to the output_codec."""
if self.input_codec <> self.output_codec:
return unicode(s, self.input_codec).encode(self.output_codec)
+ elif isinstance(s, unicode):
+ return s.encode(self.output_codec)
else:
return s
--
damjan
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