#20531: Apply the 3.3 version of the #19063 fix.

So passing unicode to set_payload works again (but still doesn't
do what you want when the message is serialized).

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/email/charset.py b/Lib/email/charset.py
index 892bab5..e999472 100644
--- a/Lib/email/charset.py
+++ b/Lib/email/charset.py
@@ -386,7 +386,8 @@ class Charset:
         string using the ascii codec produces the correct string version
         of the content.
         """
-        # 7bit/8bit encodings return the string unchanged (module conversions)
+        if not string:
+            return string
         if self.body_encoding is BASE64:
             if isinstance(string, str):
                 string = string.encode(self.output_charset)
@@ -398,13 +399,9 @@ class Charset:
             # character set, then, we must turn it into pseudo bytes via the
             # latin1 charset, which will encode any byte as a single code point
             # between 0 and 255, which is what body_encode is expecting.
-            #
-            # Note that this clause doesn't handle the case of a _payload that
-            # is already bytes.  It never did, and the semantics of _payload
-            # being bytes has never been nailed down, so fixing that is a
-            # longer term TODO.
             if isinstance(string, str):
-                string = string.encode(self.output_charset).decode('latin1')
+                string = string.encode(self.output_charset)
+            string = string.decode('latin1')
             return email.quoprimime.body_encode(string)
         else:
             if isinstance(string, str):
diff --git a/Lib/email/message.py b/Lib/email/message.py
index ce673b0..9350615 100644
--- a/Lib/email/message.py
+++ b/Lib/email/message.py
@@ -301,9 +301,19 @@ class Message:
         Optional charset sets the message's default character set.  See
         set_charset() for details.
         """
-        if isinstance(payload, bytes):
-            payload = payload.decode('ascii', 'surrogateescape')
-        self._payload = payload
+        if hasattr(payload, 'encode'):
+            if charset is None:
+                # We should check for ASCII-only here, but we can't do that
+                # for backward compatibility reasons.  Fixed in 3.4.
+                self._payload = payload
+                return
+            if not isinstance(charset, Charset):
+                charset = Charset(charset)
+            payload = payload.encode(charset.output_charset)
+        if hasattr(payload, 'decode'):
+            self._payload = payload.decode('ascii', 'surrogateescape')
+        else:
+            self._payload = payload
         if charset is not None:
             self.set_charset(charset)
 
@@ -342,7 +352,15 @@ class Message:
             try:
                 cte(self)
             except TypeError:
-                self._payload = charset.body_encode(self._payload)
+                # This if is for backward compatibility and will be removed
+                # in 3.4 when the ascii check is added to set_payload.
+                payload = self._payload
+                if payload:
+                    try:
+                        payload = payload.encode('ascii', 'surrogateescape')
+                    except UnicodeError:
+                        payload = payload.encode(charset.output_charset)
+                self._payload = charset.body_encode(payload)
                 self.add_header('Content-Transfer-Encoding', cte)
 
     def get_charset(self):