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| author | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2011-01-07 23:25:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2011-01-07 23:25:30 (GMT) |
| commit | 9253214fd9fe22b8b2b4ca5bb28952df8cab3e8c (patch) | |
| tree | 30d925a75c0b3bd542c00d6dbd667e72178056a7 /Doc/library/email.message.rst | |
| parent | 6f0022d84af15d51ffa1606991f2b6e9e56448ed (diff) | |
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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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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/email.message.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/email.message.rst b/Doc/library/email.message.rst index e76e689..29f7ba3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.message.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.message.rst @@ -169,9 +169,10 @@ Here are the methods of the :class:`Message` class: Note that in all cases, any envelope header present in the message is not included in the mapping interface. - In a model generated from bytes, any header values that (in contravention - of the RFCs) contain non-ASCII bytes will have those bytes transformed - into '?' characters when the values are retrieved through this interface. + In a model generated from bytes, any header values that (in contravention of + the RFCs) contain non-ASCII bytes will, when retrieved through this + interface, be represented as :class:`~email.header.Header` objects with + a charset of `unknown-8bit`. .. method:: __len__() |