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authorR. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2011-01-07 23:25:30 (GMT)
committerR. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2011-01-07 23:25:30 (GMT)
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#10686: recode non-ASCII headers to 'unknown-8bit' instead of ?s.
This applies only when generating strings from non-RFC compliant binary input; it makes the existing recoding behavior more consistent (ie: now no data is lost when recoding).
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@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ Here are the public methods of the :class:`Generator` class, imported from the
Messages parsed with a Bytes parser that have a
:mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Encoding` of 8bit will be converted to a
- use a 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding. Any other non-ASCII bytes in the
- message structure will be converted to '?' characters.
+ use a 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding. Non-ASCII bytes in the headers
+ will be :rfc:`2047` encoded with a charset of `unknown-8bit`.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
Added support for re-encoding 8bit message bodies, and the *linesep*