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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index 1943a06..4e62595 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -2102,6 +2102,22 @@ Porting Python code special case the standard import hooks so they are still supported even though they do not provide the non-standard ``iter_modules()`` method. +* A longstanding RFC-compliance bug (:issue:`1079`) in the parsing done by + :func:`email.header.decode_header` has been fixed. Code that uses the + standard idiom to convert encoded headers into unicode + (``str(make_header(decode_header(h))``) will see no change, but code that + looks at the individual tuples returned by decode_header will see that + whitespace that precedes or follows ``ASCII`` sections is now included in the + ``ASCII`` section. Code that builds headers using ``make_header`` should + also continue to work without change, since ``make_header`` continues to add + whitespace between ``ASCII`` and non-``ASCII`` sections if it is not already + present in the input strings. + +* :func:`email.utils.formataddr` now does the correct content transfer + encoding when passed non-``ASCII`` display names. Any code that depended on + the previous buggy behavior that preserved the non-``ASCII`` unicode in the + formatted output string will need to be changed. + Porting C code -------------- |