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Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal

From	Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal
Date	2024-11-01 07:50 +1100
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On 31Oct2024 16:33, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>I have a command-line program which creates an email containing German
>umlauts.  On receiving the mail, my mail client displays the subject and
>body correctly:
[...]
>So far, so good.  However, when I use the --verbose option to print
>the mail to the terminal via
>
>  if args.verbose:
>      print(mail)
>
>I get:
>
>  Subject: Übungsbetreff
>
>  Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Bennett,
>
>  Dies ist eine =C3=9Cbung.
>
>What do I need to do to prevent the body from getting mangled?

That looks to me like quoted-printable. This is an encoding for binary 
transport of text to make it robust against not 8-buit clean transports.  
So your Unicode text is encodings as UTF-8, and then that is encoded in 
quoted-printable for transport through the email system.

Your terminal probably accepts UTF-8 - I imagine other German text 
renders corectly?

You need to get the text and undo the quoted-printable encoding.

If you're using the Python email module to parse (or construct) the 
message as a `Message` object I'd expect that to happen automatically.

If you're just dealing with this directly, use the `quopri` stdlib 
module: https://docs.python.org/3/library/quopri.html

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au>

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Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-10-31 16:33 +0100
  Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Left Right <olegsivokon@gmail.com> - 2024-10-31 17:38 +0100
    Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-01 07:52 +0100
      Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Inada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com> - 2024-11-03 12:08 +0900
        Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-04 11:48 +0100
  Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal (Posting On Python-List Prohibited) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-31 19:35 +0000
  Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> - 2024-11-01 07:50 +1100
    Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-01 08:11 +0100
      Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-01 10:10 +0100
        Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal dieter.maurer@online.de - 2024-11-01 17:38 +0100
        Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> - 2024-11-02 08:47 +1100
          Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-04 11:44 +0100
            Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-04 11:57 +0100
              Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-04 13:02 +0100
                Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python@hjp.at> - 2024-11-05 21:39 +0100
                Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> - 2024-11-06 08:20 +1100
      Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> - 2024-11-02 08:44 +1100

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