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:mod:`email`: Representing character sets
-----------------------------------------
.. module:: email.charset
:synopsis: Character Sets
This module provides a class :class:`Charset` for representing character sets
and character set conversions in email messages, as well as a character set
registry and several convenience methods for manipulating this registry.
Instances of :class:`Charset` are used in several other modules within the
:mod:`email` package.
Import this class from the :mod:`email.charset` module.
.. class:: Charset([input_charset])
Map character sets to their email properties.
This class provides information about the requirements imposed on email for a
specific character set. It also provides convenience routines for converting
between character sets, given the availability of the applicable codecs. Given
a character set, it will do its best to provide information on how to use that
character set in an email message in an RFC-compliant way.
Certain character sets must be encoded with quoted-printable or base64 when used
in email headers or bodies. Certain character sets must be converted outright,
and are not allowed in email.
Optional *input_charset* is as described below; it is always coerced to lower
case. After being alias normalized it is also used as a lookup into the
registry of character sets to find out the header encoding, body encoding, and
output conversion codec to be used for the character set. For example, if
*input_charset* is ``iso-8859-1``, then headers and bodies will be encoded using
quoted-printable and no output conversion codec is necessary. If
*input_charset* is ``euc-jp``, then headers will be encoded with base64, bodies
will not be encoded, but output text will be converted from the ``euc-jp``
character set to the ``iso-2022-jp`` character set.
:class:`Charset` instances have the following data attributes:
.. data:: input_charset
The initial character set specified. Common aliases are converted to their
*official* email names (e.g. ``latin_1`` is converted to ``iso-8859-1``).
Defaults to 7-bit ``us-ascii``.
.. data:: header_encoding
If the character set must be encoded before it can be used in an email header,
this attribute will be set to ``Charset.QP`` (for quoted-printable),
``Charset.BASE64`` (for base64 encoding), or ``Charset.SHORTEST`` for the
shortest of QP or BASE64 encoding. Otherwise, it will be ``None``.
.. data:: body_encoding
Same as *header_encoding*, but describes the encoding for the mail message's
body, which indeed may be different than the header encoding.
``Charset.SHORTEST`` is not allowed for *body_encoding*.
.. data:: output_charset
Some character sets must be converted before they can be used in email headers
or bodies. If the *input_charset* is one of them, this attribute will contain
the name of the character set output will be converted to. Otherwise, it will
be ``None``.
.. data:: input_codec
The name of the Python codec used to convert the *input_charset* to Unicode. If
no conversion codec is necessary, this attribute will be ``None``.
.. data:: output_codec
The name of the Python codec used to convert Unicode to the *output_charset*.
If no conversion codec is necessary, this attribute will have the same value as
the *input_codec*.
:class:`Charset` instances also have the following methods:
.. method:: Charset.get_body_encoding()
Return the content transfer encoding used for body encoding.
This is either the string ``quoted-printable`` or ``base64`` depending on the
encoding used, or it is a function, in which case you should call the function
with a single argument, the Message object being encoded. The function should
then set the :mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Encoding` header itself to whatever
is appropriate.
Returns the string ``quoted-printable`` if *body_encoding* is ``QP``, returns
the string ``base64`` if *body_encoding* is ``BASE64``, and returns the string
``7bit`` otherwise.
.. method:: Charset.convert(s)
Convert the string *s* from the *input_codec* to the *output_codec*.
.. method:: Charset.to_splittable(s)
Convert a possibly multibyte string to a safely splittable format. *s* is the
string to split.
Uses the *input_codec* to try and convert the string to Unicode, so it can be
safely split on character boundaries (even for multibyte characters).
Returns the string as-is if it isn't known how to convert *s* to Unicode with
the *input_charset*.
Characters that could not be converted to Unicode will be replaced with the
Unicode replacement character ``'U+FFFD'``.
.. method:: Charset.from_splittable(ustr[, to_output])
Convert a splittable string back into an encoded string. *ustr* is a Unicode
string to "unsplit".
This method uses the proper codec to try and convert the string from Unicode
back into an encoded format. Return the string as-is if it is not Unicode, or
if it could not be converted from Unicode.
Characters that could not be converted from Unicode will be replaced with an
appropriate character (usually ``'?'``).
If *to_output* is ``True`` (the default), uses *output_codec* to convert to an
encoded format. If *to_output* is ``False``, it uses *input_codec*.
.. method:: Charset.get_output_charset()
Return the output character set.
This is the *output_charset* attribute if that is not ``None``, otherwise it is
*input_charset*.
.. method:: Charset.encoded_header_len()
Return the length of the encoded header string, properly calculating for
quoted-printable or base64 encoding.
.. method:: Charset.header_encode(s[, convert])
Header-encode the string *s*.
If *convert* is ``True``, the string will be converted from the input charset to
the output charset automatically. This is not useful for multibyte character
sets, which have line length issues (multibyte characters must be split on a
character, not a byte boundary); use the higher-level :class:`Header` class to
deal with these issues (see :mod:`email.header`). *convert* defaults to
``False``.
The type of encoding (base64 or quoted-printable) will be based on the
*header_encoding* attribute.
.. method:: Charset.body_encode(s[, convert])
Body-encode the string *s*.
If *convert* is ``True`` (the default), the string will be converted from the
input charset to output charset automatically. Unlike :meth:`header_encode`,
there are no issues with byte boundaries and multibyte charsets in email bodies,
so this is usually pretty safe.
The type of encoding (base64 or quoted-printable) will be based on the
*body_encoding* attribute.
The :class:`Charset` class also provides a number of methods to support standard
operations and built-in functions.
.. method:: Charset.__str__()
Returns *input_charset* as a string coerced to lower case. :meth:`__repr__` is
an alias for :meth:`__str__`.
.. method:: Charset.__eq__(other)
This method allows you to compare two :class:`Charset` instances for equality.
.. method:: Header.__ne__(other)
This method allows you to compare two :class:`Charset` instances for inequality.
The :mod:`email.charset` module also provides the following functions for adding
new entries to the global character set, alias, and codec registries:
.. function:: add_charset(charset[, header_enc[, body_enc[, output_charset]]])
Add character properties to the global registry.
*charset* is the input character set, and must be the canonical name of a
character set.
Optional *header_enc* and *body_enc* is either ``Charset.QP`` for
quoted-printable, ``Charset.BASE64`` for base64 encoding,
``Charset.SHORTEST`` for the shortest of quoted-printable or base64 encoding,
or ``None`` for no encoding. ``SHORTEST`` is only valid for
*header_enc*. The default is ``None`` for no encoding.
Optional *output_charset* is the character set that the output should be in.
Conversions will proceed from input charset, to Unicode, to the output charset
when the method :meth:`Charset.convert` is called. The default is to output in
the same character set as the input.
Both *input_charset* and *output_charset* must have Unicode codec entries in the
module's character set-to-codec mapping; use :func:`add_codec` to add codecs the
module does not know about. See the :mod:`codecs` module's documentation for
more information.
The global character set registry is kept in the module global dictionary
``CHARSETS``.
.. function:: add_alias(alias, canonical)
Add a character set alias. *alias* is the alias name, e.g. ``latin-1``.
*canonical* is the character set's canonical name, e.g. ``iso-8859-1``.
The global charset alias registry is kept in the module global dictionary
``ALIASES``.
.. function:: add_codec(charset, codecname)
Add a codec that map characters in the given character set to and from Unicode.
*charset* is the canonical name of a character set. *codecname* is the name of a
Python codec, as appropriate for the second argument to the :func:`unicode`
built-in, or to the :meth:`encode` method of a Unicode string.
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