#14380: Have MIMEText defaults to utf-8 when passed non-ASCII unicode
Previously it would just accept the unicode, which would wind up as unicode in
the transfer-encoded message object, which is just wrong.
Patch by Jeff Knupp.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
index e771c20..86aa60c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
@@ -617,6 +617,19 @@
abc
"""))
+ def test_unicode_body_defaults_to_utf8_encoding(self):
+ # Issue 14291
+ m = MIMEText('É testabc\n')
+ self.assertEqual(str(m),textwrap.dedent("""\
+ MIME-Version: 1.0
+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
+
+ w4kgdGVzdGFiYwo=
+ """))
+
+
+
# Test the email.encoders module
class TestEncoders(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -642,7 +655,7 @@
eq(msg['content-transfer-encoding'], '7bit')
# Similar, but with 8bit data
msg = MIMEText('hello \xf8 world')
- eq(msg['content-transfer-encoding'], '8bit')
+ eq(msg['content-transfer-encoding'], 'base64')
# And now with a different charset
msg = MIMEText('hello \xf8 world', _charset='iso-8859-1')
eq(msg['content-transfer-encoding'], 'quoted-printable')