2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index b1c2eea..f3555f3 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -979,3 +979,4 @@ Uwe Zessin
 Kai Zhu
 Tarek Ziadé
 Peter Åstrand
+Torsten Becker
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 44d4e9e..37eb250 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ Library
 - Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting multipart
   subpararts with an 8bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the bytes.
 
+- Issue #1690608: email.util.formataddr is now RFC2047 aware:  it now has a
+  charset parameter that defaults utf-8 which is used as the charset for RFC
+  2047 encoding when the realname contains non-ASCII characters.
+
 - Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
 
 - Issue #10791: Implement missing method GzipFile.read1(), allowing GzipFile