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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-02-01 11:56:49 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-02-01 11:56:49 (GMT)
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Update docs w.r.t. PEP 3100 changes -- patch for GHOP by Dan Finnie.
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@@ -130,10 +130,10 @@ There are several useful utilities provided in the :mod:`email.utils` module:
When a header parameter is encoded in :rfc:`2231` format,
:meth:`Message.get_param` may return a 3-tuple containing the character set,
language, and value. :func:`collapse_rfc2231_value` turns this into a unicode
- string. Optional *errors* is passed to the *errors* argument of the built-in
- :func:`unicode` function; it defaults to ``replace``. Optional
+ string. Optional *errors* is passed to the *errors* argument of :class:`str`'s
+ :func:`encode` method; it defaults to ``'replace'``. Optional
*fallback_charset* specifies the character set to use if the one in the
- :rfc:`2231` header is not known by Python; it defaults to ``us-ascii``.
+ :rfc:`2231` header is not known by Python; it defaults to ``'us-ascii'``.
For convenience, if the *value* passed to :func:`collapse_rfc2231_value` is not
a tuple, it should be a string and it is returned unquoted.