Unicode - and MIMEType - Good friday fun.

[rh0dium]

Hi Geniuses,

Can anyone please show me the way.. I don't understand why this
doesn't work...


# encoding: utf-8
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText

msg = MIMEText("hi")
msg.set_charset('utf-8')
print msg.as_string()

a = 'Ho\xcc\x82tel Ste\xcc\x81phane '
b = unicode(a, "utf-8")

print b

msg = MIMEText(b)
msg.set_charset('utf-8')
print msg.as_string()

It should right??

Thanks!

 

[MRAB]

Hi Geniuses,

Can anyone please show me the way.. I don't understand why this
doesn't work...


# encoding: utf-8
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText

msg = MIMEText("hi")
msg.set_charset('utf-8')
print msg.as_string()

a = 'Ho\xcc\x82tel Ste\xcc\x81phane '
b = unicode(a, "utf-8")

print b

msg = MIMEText(b)
msg.set_charset('utf-8')
print msg.as_string()

It should right??

'b' is Unicode, but you're telling 'msg' that it's UTF-8, which it
isn't. Try giving 'msg' the UTF-8 string:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

HoÌ‚tel SteÌphane

 

[Rami Chowdhury]

b = unicode(a, "utf-8")

[snip]

msg = MIMEText(b)

I believe this is the problem line -- the MIMEText constructor takes
encoded strings rather than unicode objects. Try:

msg = MIMEText(a)

Or, alternatively

msg = MIMEText(b.encode('utf-8'))