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@@ -29,13 +29,20 @@ There are several useful utilities provided in the :mod:`email.utils` module:
fails, in which case a 2-tuple of ``('', '')`` is returned.
-.. function:: formataddr(pair)
+.. function:: formataddr(pair, charset='utf-8')
The inverse of :meth:`parseaddr`, this takes a 2-tuple of the form ``(realname,
email_address)`` and returns the string value suitable for a :mailheader:`To` or
:mailheader:`Cc` header. If the first element of *pair* is false, then the
second element is returned unmodified.
+ Optional *charset* is the character set that will be used in the :rfc:`2047`
+ encoding of the ``realname`` if the ``realname`` contains non-ASCII
+ characters. Can be an instance of :class:`str` or a
+ :class:`~email.charset.Charset`. Defaults to ``utf-8``.
+
+ .. versionchanged: 3.3 added the *charset* option
+
.. function:: getaddresses(fieldvalues)