Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal

On 01Nov2024 08:11, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> writes:

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.

>
I am using
 email.message.EmailMessage

Noted. That seems like the correct approach to me.

And you are right that encoding for the actual mail which is received is
automatically sorted out.  If I display the raw email in my client I get
the following:
>
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 ...
 Subject: =?utf-8?q?=C3=9Cbungsbetreff?=
 ...
 Dies ist eine =C3=9Cbung.

Right. Quoted-printable encoding for the transport.

I would interpret that as meaning that the subject and body are encoded
in the same way.

Yes.

The problem just occurs with the unsent string representation printed to
the terminal.

Yes, and I was thinking abut this yesterday. I suspect that `print(some_message_object)` is intended to transcribe it for transport.  For example, one could write to an mbox file and just print() the message into it and get correct transport/storage formatting, which includes the qp encoding.
Can you should the code (or example code) which leads to the qp output?  I suspect there's a straight forward way to get the decoded Unicode, but I'd need to see how what you've got was obtained.