#24211: Add RFC6532 support to the email library.

This could use more edge case tests, but the basic functionality is tested.
(Note that this changeset does not add tailored support for the RFC 6532
message/global MIME type, but the email package generic facilities will handle
it.)

Reviewed by Maciej Szulik.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/email/policy.py b/Lib/email/policy.py
index f0b20f4..6ac64a5 100644
--- a/Lib/email/policy.py
+++ b/Lib/email/policy.py
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ class EmailPolicy(Policy):
     In addition to the settable attributes listed above that apply to
     all Policies, this policy adds the following additional attributes:
 
+    utf8                -- if False (the default) message headers will be
+                           serialized as ASCII, using encoded words to encode
+                           any non-ASCII characters in the source strings.  If
+                           True, the message headers will be serialized using
+                           utf8 and will not contain encoded words (see RFC
+                           6532 for more on this serialization format).
+
     refold_source       -- if the value for a header in the Message object
                            came from the parsing of some source, this attribute
                            indicates whether or not a generator should refold
@@ -72,6 +79,7 @@ class EmailPolicy(Policy):
 
     """
 
+    utf8 = False
     refold_source = 'long'
     header_factory = HeaderRegistry()
     content_manager = raw_data_manager
@@ -175,9 +183,13 @@ class EmailPolicy(Policy):
         refold_header setting, since there is no way to know whether the binary
         data consists of single byte characters or multibyte characters.
 
+        If utf8 is true, headers are encoded to utf8, otherwise to ascii with
+        non-ASCII unicode rendered as encoded words.
+
         """
         folded = self._fold(name, value, refold_binary=self.cte_type=='7bit')
-        return folded.encode('ascii', 'surrogateescape')
+        charset = 'utf8' if self.utf8 else 'ascii'
+        return folded.encode(charset, 'surrogateescape')
 
     def _fold(self, name, value, refold_binary=False):
         if hasattr(value, 'name'):
@@ -199,3 +211,4 @@ del default.header_factory
 strict = default.clone(raise_on_defect=True)
 SMTP = default.clone(linesep='\r\n')
 HTTP = default.clone(linesep='\r\n', max_line_length=None)
+SMTPUTF8 = SMTP.clone(utf8=True)