Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:33:41 +0100, Loris Bennett wrote:

  Dies ist eine =C3=9Cbung.
 
What do I need to do to prevent the body from getting mangled?

I don’t think that’s actually getting mangled, that is how the actual
message body looks. What you have there is called “quoted printable”
encoding, and it’s a standard way to ensure the message body consists only
of 7-bit ASCII.

If you look at the source of the message, you should see a header line
like “Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable”. This is how your email
client knows how to display the text properly.