On 8/26/2020 11:10 AM, Chris Green wrote:
I have a simple[ish] local mbox mail delivery module as follows:-
...
It has run faultlessly for many years under Python 2. I've now
changed the calling program to Python 3 and while it handles most
E-Mail OK I have just got the following error:-
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/chris/.mutt/bin/filter.py", line 102, in <module>
mailLib.deliverMboxMsg(dest, msg, log)
...
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/email/generator.py", line 406, in write
self._fp.write(s.encode('ascii', 'surrogateescape'))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\ufeff' in
position 4: ordinal not in range(128)
'\ufeff' is the Unicode byte-order mark. It should not be present in an
ascii-only 3.x string and would not normally be present in general
unicode except in messages like this that talk about it. Read about it,
for instance, at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
I would catch the error and print part or all of string s to see what is
going on with this particular message. Does it have other non-ascii chars?
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Terry Jan Reedy
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