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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:52:04 +0200
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Op 29-07-13 01:41, rurpy@yahoo.com schreef:
> How, using Python-3.3's email module, do I "flatten" (I think
> that's the right term) a Message object to get utf-8 encoded
> body with the headers:
>   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> when the message payload was set to a python (unicode) string?
>

I am just trying out some things for my self on python 3.2 so
be sure to test this out but you could try the following.

msg.set_charset('utf-8')
msg['Content-Transfer-Encoding'] = '8bit'

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Antoon Pardon