On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jesus Cea <j...@jcea.es> wrote: > I miss mUTF-7 support (as used to encode IMAP4 mailbox names) in Python, > in the codecs module. As an european with a language with 27 different > letters (instead of english 26), tildes, opening question marks, etc., I > find it very inconvenient. > > This encoding is used basically only in IMAP4, I know. But IMAP4 is an > important protocol and all projects related to it needs mUTF-7 support > if they care about non-english alphabets. Everybody has already an > implementation, waste of effort.
I've been parsing up a huge gmail account with no encoding errors, using CPython 2.x and CPython 3.x. I'd be surprised if there are no foreign characters in any of the thousands of messages there - but maybe I'm just being very lucky. I'm not specifying a codec, and I don't see a way of specifying one offhand. Does email.header.decode_header help you? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
