[Zope] mail encoding problem

[Stuart Bishop]

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On 23/01/2004, at 2:23 AM, Ronny Theunissen wrote:

> I'm trying to send a mail from Zope (2.6.2b3 on RH9.0) containing  
> latin-1 characters using the following script invocations:
>
> # external method to quopri.encodestring
> encode=container.encode_quotedprintable
> container.MailHost.send(encode(body),mto=toAd,mfrom=fromAd,subject=enco 
> de(subject),encode='quoted-printable')

The subject header shouldn't be quoted printable - the email.Header
module in the Python Standard Library gives you the tools you
need to correctly encode headers.

> This works fine for the Yahoo mail-client, but Outlook filters out  
> special characters in subject and body.
>
> Does anyone know a solution to this problem?

You may also need to specify a charset somewhere. To correctly convert
a Unicode string to quoted printable, you need to do something like
u'My 2\N{CENT SIGN}'.encode('utf8').encode('quopri'). You then need
to know the encoding character set to reverse the process
( encoded_string.decode('quopri').decode('utf8') )

- --  
Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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