How do I best guess the right (non-UTF, 8bit) default _charset for MIMEText on an arbitrary computer?
Windows default encoding is quasi : 'mbcs' . No information >>> locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] #delivers for example: 'cp1252' but I guess 'cp1252' is not recognized commonly by email-readers, but 'ISO-8859-1' or 'Windows-1252' are usually used for that area. Robert PS: side-question: why is there a latin_1.py and a iso8859_1.py in lib/encodings ? Shouldn't they be the same? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
