#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/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 9ed148e..4e6597d 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -548,6 +548,7 @@
Kim Knapp
Lenny Kneler
Pat Knight
+Jeff Knupp
Greg Kochanski
Damon Kohler
Marko Kohtala
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 02bafcd..b6d7dad 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #14380: MIMEText now defaults to utf-8 when passed non-ASCII unicode
+ with no charset specified.
+
- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
was not meant to connect.