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diff --git a/Doc/library/email.message.rst b/Doc/library/email.message.rst index 9dcb2b4..dc305a7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.message.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.message.rst @@ -111,9 +111,17 @@ Here are the methods of the :class:`Message` class: be decoded if this header's value is ``quoted-printable`` or ``base64``. If some other encoding is used, or :mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Encoding` header is missing, or if the payload has bogus base64 data, the payload is - returned as-is (undecoded). If the message is a multipart and the - *decode* flag is ``True``, then ``None`` is returned. The default for - *decode* is ``False``. + returned as-is (undecoded). In all cases the returned value is binary + data. If the message is a multipart and the *decode* flag is ``True``, + then ``None`` is returned. + + When *decode* is ``False`` (the default) the body is returned as a string + without decoding the :mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Encoding`. However, + for a :mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Encoding` of 8bit, an attempt is made + to decode the original bytes using the `charset` specified by the + :mailheader:`Content-Type` header, using the `replace` error handler. If + no `charset` is specified, or if the `charset` given is not recognized by + the email package, the body is decoded using the default ASCII charset. .. method:: set_payload(payload, charset=None) @@ -160,6 +168,10 @@ Here are the methods of the :class:`Message` class: Note that in all cases, any envelope header present in the message is not included in the mapping interface. + In a model generated from bytes, any header values that (in contravention + of the RFCs) contain non-ASCII bytes will have those bytes transformed + into '?' characters when the values are retrieved through this interface. + .. method:: __len__() |