[Zope] MailHost, subject and Spanish characters

[george donnelly]

[Vladimir Petrovic wrote (vladap@criticalpublics.com) on 7/3/03 10:58 AM]

> On Wednesday 02 July 2003 21:34, george donnelly wrote:
>> I have a script that produces an email (in Spanish) when new content is
>> published. I can get the body of the email to show up correctly (ie the
>> accents etc render correctly) but the subject turns spanish characters into
>> garbage.
>> 
> 
> 
> SMTP message header has to be encoded specially if it contains non ascii
> characters. Subject has to be of the form:
> =?<enc>?b?<text>?=
> 
> and text should be base64 encoded.
> 
> Here is a simple script that will generate proper header value for a UTF-8
> string:

thanks for your suggestion and the script. I ended up doing it this way:

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from email.Header import Header

......

      esSubject = Header(contentObject.Title(), 'utf-8')
      
      essString = str(esSubject)

........

       mSubj = essString
       
       mailhost.send(mMsg, subject=mSubj, encode='quoted-printable')

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