#14291: if a header has non-ascii unicode, default to CTE using utf-8
In Python2, if a unicode string was assigned as the value of a header,
email would automatically CTE encode it using the UTF8 charset.
This capability was lost in the Python3 translation, and this patch
restores it.
Patch by Ali Ikinci, assisted by R. David Murray.
I also added a fix for the mailbox test that was depending (with a comment
that it was a bad idea to so depend) on non-ASCII causing message_from_string
to raise an error. It now uses support.patch to induce an error during
message serialization.
diff --git a/Lib/email/test/test_email.py b/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
index 102e15b..f43bb38 100644
--- a/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
@@ -619,6 +619,19 @@
msg['Dummy'] = 'dummy\nX-Injected-Header: test'
self.assertRaises(errors.HeaderParseError, msg.as_string)
+ def test_unicode_header_defaults_to_utf8_encoding(self):
+ # Issue 14291
+ m = MIMEText('abc\n')
+ m['Subject'] = 'É test'
+ self.assertEqual(str(m),textwrap.dedent("""\
+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
+ MIME-Version: 1.0
+ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
+ Subject: =?utf-8?q?=C3=89_test?=
+
+ abc
+ """))
+
# Test the email.encoders module
class TestEncoders(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -1060,9 +1073,13 @@
'f\xfcr Offshore-Windkraftprojekte '
'<a-very-long-address@example.com>')
msg['Reply-To'] = header_string
- self.assertRaises(UnicodeEncodeError, msg.as_string)
+ eq(msg.as_string(maxheaderlen=78), """\
+Reply-To: =?utf-8?q?Britische_Regierung_gibt_gr=C3=BCnes_Licht_f=C3=BCr_Offs?=
+ =?utf-8?q?hore-Windkraftprojekte_=3Ca-very-long-address=40example=2Ecom=3E?=
+
+""")
msg = Message()
- msg['Reply-To'] = Header(header_string, 'utf-8',
+ msg['Reply-To'] = Header(header_string,
header_name='Reply-To')
eq(msg.as_string(maxheaderlen=78), """\
Reply-To: =?utf-8?q?Britische_Regierung_gibt_gr=C3=BCnes_Licht_f=C3=BCr_Offs?=