Chris Withers wrote: > print msg.as_string() > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset; charset="utf-8" ^^^^^^^ Actually, even this isn't correct as you can see above...
> charset = Charset('utf-8') > msg = MIMEText('','plain',None) > msg.set_payload(u'Some text with chars that need encoding:\xa3',charset) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\test_encoding.py", line 5, in ? > msg.set_payload(u'Some text with chars that need > encoding:\xa3',charset) > File "c:\python24\lib\email\Message.py", line 218, in set_payload > self.set_charset(charset) > File "c:\python24\lib\email\Message.py", line 260, in set_charset > self._payload = charset.body_encode(self._payload) > File "c:\python24\lib\email\Charset.py", line 366, in body_encode > return email.base64MIME.body_encode(s) > File "c:\python24\lib\email\base64MIME.py", line 136, in encode > enc = b2a_base64(s[i:i + max_unencoded]) > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in > position 40: ordinal not in range(128) ...and I'm still left with this problem... Has no-one ever successfully generated a correctly formatted email with email.MIMEText where the message includes non-ascii characters?! Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list