"\xbb" in the charset iso8859-1 (aka latin1) or is this lovely symbol here,
"»". I know this, since I've sent myself an email containing this little
character and used iso8859-1 as the encoding.
I then download the email using python poplib library.
*>>>* import poplib
*>>>* mailbox = poplib.POP3_SSL('pop.gmail.com', port=995)
*>>>* mailbox.user('[email protected]')
'+OK send PASS'
*>>>* mailbox.pass_('mypassword')
'+OK Welcome.'
*>>>* msg = mailbox.retr(3) # email no. 3 is the relevant email.
*>>>* msg_lines = msg[1]
*>>>* msg_lines[29] # this is the line that contains the "»"
'=BB'
*>>>* len(msg_lines[29])
3
Instead of =BB I expected to see \xbb. To me, the innocent user of poplib, I
would say there must be a bug there. However, knowing I don't fully
understand all the charset encoding stuff I'm sure poplib is sound and I'm
the one that's mistaken. I've used another mail client to download the same
file and it renders in correctly when the encoding is set to latin1.
As far as I can tell, I can't exactly convert "=BB" to another encoding.
>>> print '\xBB'.decode('latin1')
»
>>> print '=BB'.decode('latin1')
=BB
I've tried sending utf-8 encoded emails too, but it has the same result,
albeit showing '=C2=BB' instead of '=BB'. What can I do to successfully
decode the email after downloading it with poplib?
Tim ^,^
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