problems with mimify.mime_encode_header

[Egor Duda]

I'm trying to use mimify module and have a problem with
mime_encode_header function. Below is the testcase

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import mimify

mimify.CHARSET = 'utf-8'

print mimify.mime_encode_header('Subject: теÑÑ‚ а.\n');

Тhe output is:
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?=D1=82=D0=B5=D1=81=D1=82?= а.

Please note that the last character (before dot) is not quoted, and
resulting string is not 8bit clean.

Is it incorrect behavior, or i'm calling mime_encode_header in a way
it's not supposed to be called?

egor

 

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import mimify

mimify.CHARSET = 'utf-8'

print mimify.mime_encode_header('Subject: теÑÑ‚ а.\n');

Тhe output is:
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?=D1=82=D0=B5=D1=81=D1=82?= а.

Please note that the last character (before dot) is not quoted, and
resulting string is not 8bit clean.

Why should a simple ASCII 'a' be quoted? And what do you mean by "not
8bit clean"? The string is even 7-bit clean!

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch