Problem on getting various character set from pop3.retr

[GM]

Dear all,

The problem that I am facing now is that, when I use poplib to get a
email message with chinese character set like big5, the character
string is changed automatically to sth like =B8=D5=ACQ=AAM...the OS I
am using is red hat ES4 and the python version I am using is 2.3.4 (it
seems python 2.4 is not available for red hat). My application goal is
to receive the email and convert all character set to UTF-8 and then
store in file. So....long way to go for me, please give me some help
for that, thx~

Regards,

Gary

 

[John Machin]

Dear all,

The problem that I am facing now is that, when I use poplib to get a
email message with chinese character set like big5, the character
string is changed automatically to sth like =B8=D5=ACQ=AAM...the OS I
am using is red hat ES4 and the python version I am using is 2.3.4 (it
seems python 2.4 is not available for red hat). My application goal is
to receive the email and convert all character set to UTF-8 and then
store in file. So....long way to go for me, please give me some help
for that, thx~

It's not being "changed automatically" at your end. It arrived like
that. Check out the Content-Transfer-Encoding: message header.

These may help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-quopri.html

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html

Cheers,
John