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diff --git a/Lib/email/header.py b/Lib/email/header.py
index a0f7c45..1bbf8c5 100644
--- a/Lib/email/header.py
+++ b/Lib/email/header.py
@@ -292,12 +292,12 @@ class Header:
75-character length limit on any given encoded header field, so
line-wrapping must be performed, even with double-byte character sets.
- This method will do its best to convert the string to the correct
- character set used in email, and encode and line wrap it safely with
- the appropriate scheme for that character set.
-
- If the given charset is not known or an error occurs during
- conversion, this function will return the header untouched.
+ Optional maxlinelen specifies the maxiumum length of each generated
+ line, exclusive of the linesep string. Individual lines may be longer
+ than maxlinelen if a folding point cannot be found. The first line
+ will be shorter by the length of the header name plus ": " if a header
+ name was specified at Header construction time. The default value for
+ maxlinelen is determined at header construction time.
Optional splitchars is a string containing characters to split long
ASCII lines on, in rough support of RFC 2822's `highest level