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diff --git a/Doc/library/email.header.rst b/Doc/library/email.header.rst index 113a6b8..808f7e5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.header.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.header.rst @@ -94,14 +94,15 @@ Here is the :class:`Header` class description: decoded with that character set. If *s* is an instance of :class:`str`, then *charset* is a hint specifying - the character set of the characters in the string. In this case, when - producing an :rfc:`2822`\ -compliant header using :rfc:`2047` rules, the - Unicode string will be encoded using the following charsets in order: - ``us-ascii``, the *charset* hint, ``utf-8``. The first character set to - not provoke a :exc:`UnicodeError` is used. - - Optional *errors* is passed through to any :func:`encode` or - :func:`ustr.encode` call, and defaults to "strict". + the character set of the characters in the string. + + In either case, when producing an :rfc:`2822`\ -compliant header using + :rfc:`2047` rules, the string will be encoded using the output codec of + the charset. If the string cannot be encoded using the output codec, a + UnicodeError will be raised. + + Optional *errors* is passed as the errors argument to the decode call + if *s* is a byte string. .. method:: encode(splitchars=';, \\t', maxlinelen=None, linesep='\\n') |