[issue30033] email module base64-encodes utf-8 text

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

The API exists in python3.5 and python3.4 as well, it was just provisional.  
Very few things changed between the provisional version and the final version 
in 3.6.

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[issue30033] email module base64-encodes utf-8 text

[Jon Ribbens]

Jon Ribbens added the comment:

Just a note for anyone finding this in searching results: it appears that what 
David means by "python3 API" is actually a new API in Python 3.6 
(email.message.EmailMessage).

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[issue30033] email module base64-encodes utf-8 text

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

Yes, this sub-optimal, but it's the way it works in the legacy API, and we 
aren't going to change the legacy (compat32) API at this point.  The new 
policies and the new API in python3 handle this sensibly.

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[issue30033] email module base64-encodes utf-8 text

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Changes by Serhiy Storchaka :


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[issue30033] email module base64-encodes utf-8 text

[Jon Ribbens]

New submission from Jon Ribbens:

The email module, when creating text parts using character encoding utf-8, 
base64-encodes the output even though this is often inappropriate (e.g. if it 
is a Western language it is almost never appropriate).

>>> from email.mime.text import MIMEText
>>> m = MIMEText("hello", _charset="utf-8")
>>> m.as_string()
'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"\nMIME-Version: 
1.0\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\naGVsbG8=\n'

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messages: 291435
nosy: jribbens
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: email module base64-encodes utf-8 text
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5

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