Issue 6521: Contradictory documentation for email.mime.text.MIMEText (original) (raw)

Apparently it doesn't:

message = MIMEText(u"héhé", _charset="utf-8") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/email/mime/text.py", line 30, in init self.set_payload(_text, _charset) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/email/message.py", line 224, in set_payload self.set_charset(charset) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/email/message.py", line 266, in set_charset self._payload = charset.body_encode(self._payload) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/email/charset.py", line 387, in body_encode return email.base64mime.body_encode(s) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/email/base64mime.py", line 147, in encode enc = b2a_base64(s[i:i + max_unencoded]) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)