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R. David Murray added the comment: Yes. Benjamin merged this to py3k in r82292. If someone wants to explain to me how to cherry pick the changeset into 3.1 I'd be happy to do it, otherwise I think I'm done with this one :) -- stage: commit review -> committed/rejected status: open -

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: David, can this issue be closed? -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pytho

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R. David Murray added the comment: Patch committed to trunk in r81705. Leaving issue open pending porting to the other branches, but I've also opened issue 8898 to further change things so that codecs becomes the sole authority for aliases in 3.2. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patc

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Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: R. David Murray wrote: > > R. David Murray added the comment: > > Mark, any objection to my putting this patch in now, and then we'll fix the > aliases implementation in 3.2? No. Please open a new issue targeting Python 3.2 for this. Thanks, -- Marc-A

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R. David Murray added the comment: Mark, any objection to my putting this patch in now, and then we'll fix the aliases implementation in 3.2? -- versions: +Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 2.5 ___ Python tracker ___

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Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: R. David Murray wrote: > > R. David Murray added the comment: > > For various reasons the email module has a table of character sets. What > might be most effective would be for the email module to look a character set > name up in the codecs module an

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Éric Araujo added the comment: Idea: Import the aliases mapping from codecs and extend it with email-specific aliases. Alternate idea: Add email’s names to codecs. Side note: “charset” stands for “character encoding”, not “character set”. See

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R. David Murray added the comment: For various reasons the email module has a table of character sets. What might be most effective would be for the email module to look a character set name up in the codecs module and find out the cannonical name of the character set, and then look that up

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Shashwat Anand added the comment: MIMEText doesn't support unicode input. This was the reason OP Test case failed. For reference : http://bugs.python.org/issue1368247 -- ___ Python tracker ___

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Shashwat Anand added the comment: I tested it on python 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 trunk and 3.2 varying msg.set_charset(x) with x = 'utf8' and 'utf-8' Here are the results. Apparantly python 2.x had issue with Test case and 3.2 passed but I guess it is unrelated with the issue. 07:35:40 l0nwlf-MBP:~ $ p

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Ben Gamari added the comment: Has this patch been merged yet? -- nosy: +bgamari ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing li

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Tony Nelson added the comment: This seems entirely reasonable, helpful, and in accord with the mapping of ascii to us-ascii. I recommend accepting this patch or a slightly fancier one that would also do "utf_8". There are pobably other encoding names with the same issue of being accepted by Py

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New submission from maxua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: When using MIME email package you can specify "utf8" as the encoding. It will be accepted but it is not rendered correctly in some MUA. E.g. Mac OS X Mail.app doesn't display it properly while Google Gmail does. It is confusing since Python itself h