Issue 26527: CGI library - Using unicode in header fields (original) (raw)

According to RFC5987 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5987), it's possible to use other encoding than ASCII in header fields. Specifically in the CGI library, posting files with non-ASCII characters will lead the header to be (for example) filename*=utf-8"xxxxx" which is not recognised:

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if 'filename' in pdict: self.filename = pdict['filename'] self._binary_file = self.filename is not None

The file will thus be treated as a string. The correction isn't too big but being a total newbie, I'm a bit scared to suggest a patch.