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:mod:`email.charset`: Representing character sets
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.. module:: email.charset
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:synopsis: Character Sets
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**Source code:** :source:`Lib/email/charset.py`
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This module is part of the legacy (``Compat32``) email API. In the new
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API only the aliases table is used.
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The remaining text in this section is the original documentation of the module.
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This module provides a class :class:`Charset` for representing character sets
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and character set conversions in email messages, as well as a character set
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registry and several convenience methods for manipulating this registry.
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Instances of :class:`Charset` are used in several other modules within the
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:mod:`email` package.
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Import this class from the :mod:`email.charset` module.
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.. class:: Charset(input_charset=DEFAULT_CHARSET)
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Map character sets to their email properties.
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This class provides information about the requirements imposed on email for a
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specific character set. It also provides convenience routines for converting
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between character sets, given the availability of the applicable codecs. Given
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a character set, it will do its best to provide information on how to use that
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character set in an email message in an RFC-compliant way.
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Certain character sets must be encoded with quoted-printable or base64 when used
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in email headers or bodies. Certain character sets must be converted outright,
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and are not allowed in email.
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Optional *input_charset* is as described below; it is always coerced to lower
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case. After being alias normalized it is also used as a lookup into the
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registry of character sets to find out the header encoding, body encoding, and
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output conversion codec to be used for the character set. For example, if
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*input_charset* is ``iso-8859-1``, then headers and bodies will be encoded using
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quoted-printable and no output conversion codec is necessary. If
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*input_charset* is ``euc-jp``, then headers will be encoded with base64, bodies
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will not be encoded, but output text will be converted from the ``euc-jp``
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character set to the ``iso-2022-jp`` character set.
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:class:`Charset` instances have the following data attributes:
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.. attribute:: input_charset
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The initial character set specified. Common aliases are converted to
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their *official* email names (e.g. ``latin_1`` is converted to
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``iso-8859-1``). Defaults to 7-bit ``us-ascii``.
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.. attribute:: header_encoding
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If the character set must be encoded before it can be used in an email
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header, this attribute will be set to ``Charset.QP`` (for
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quoted-printable), ``Charset.BASE64`` (for base64 encoding), or
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``Charset.SHORTEST`` for the shortest of QP or BASE64 encoding. Otherwise,
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it will be ``None``.
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.. attribute:: body_encoding
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Same as *header_encoding*, but describes the encoding for the mail
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message's body, which indeed may be different than the header encoding.
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``Charset.SHORTEST`` is not allowed for *body_encoding*.
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.. attribute:: output_charset
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Some character sets must be converted before they can be used in email
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headers or bodies. If the *input_charset* is one of them, this attribute
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will contain the name of the character set output will be converted to.
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Otherwise, it will be ``None``.
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.. attribute:: input_codec
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The name of the Python codec used to convert the *input_charset* to
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Unicode. If no conversion codec is necessary, this attribute will be
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``None``.
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.. attribute:: output_codec
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The name of the Python codec used to convert Unicode to the
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*output_charset*. If no conversion codec is necessary, this attribute
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will have the same value as the *input_codec*.
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:class:`Charset` instances also have the following methods:
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.. method:: get_body_encoding()
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Return the content transfer encoding used for body encoding.
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This is either the string ``quoted-printable`` or ``base64`` depending on
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the encoding used, or it is a function, in which case you should call the
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function with a single argument, the Message object being encoded. The
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function should then set the :mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Encoding`
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header itself to whatever is appropriate.
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Returns the string ``quoted-printable`` if *body_encoding* is ``QP``,
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returns the string ``base64`` if *body_encoding* is ``BASE64``, and
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returns the string ``7bit`` otherwise.
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.. method:: get_output_charset()
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Return the output character set.
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This is the *output_charset* attribute if that is not ``None``, otherwise
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it is *input_charset*.
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.. method:: header_encode(string)
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Header-encode the string *string*.
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The type of encoding (base64 or quoted-printable) will be based on the
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*header_encoding* attribute.
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.. method:: header_encode_lines(string, maxlengths)
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Header-encode a *string* by converting it first to bytes.
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This is similar to :meth:`header_encode` except that the string is fit
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into maximum line lengths as given by the argument *maxlengths*, which
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must be an iterator: each element returned from this iterator will provide
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the next maximum line length.
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.. method:: body_encode(string)
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Body-encode the string *string*.
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The type of encoding (base64 or quoted-printable) will be based on the
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*body_encoding* attribute.
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The :class:`Charset` class also provides a number of methods to support
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standard operations and built-in functions.
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.. method:: __str__()
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Returns *input_charset* as a string coerced to lower
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case. :meth:`__repr__` is an alias for :meth:`__str__`.
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.. method:: __eq__(other)
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This method allows you to compare two :class:`Charset` instances for
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equality.
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.. method:: __ne__(other)
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This method allows you to compare two :class:`Charset` instances for
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inequality.
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The :mod:`email.charset` module also provides the following functions for adding
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new entries to the global character set, alias, and codec registries:
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.. function:: add_charset(charset, header_enc=None, body_enc=None, output_charset=None)
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Add character properties to the global registry.
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*charset* is the input character set, and must be the canonical name of a
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character set.
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Optional *header_enc* and *body_enc* is either ``Charset.QP`` for
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quoted-printable, ``Charset.BASE64`` for base64 encoding,
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``Charset.SHORTEST`` for the shortest of quoted-printable or base64 encoding,
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or ``None`` for no encoding. ``SHORTEST`` is only valid for
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*header_enc*. The default is ``None`` for no encoding.
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Optional *output_charset* is the character set that the output should be in.
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Conversions will proceed from input charset, to Unicode, to the output charset
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when the method :meth:`Charset.convert` is called. The default is to output in
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the same character set as the input.
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Both *input_charset* and *output_charset* must have Unicode codec entries in the
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module's character set-to-codec mapping; use :func:`add_codec` to add codecs the
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module does not know about. See the :mod:`codecs` module's documentation for
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more information.
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The global character set registry is kept in the module global dictionary
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``CHARSETS``.
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.. function:: add_alias(alias, canonical)
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Add a character set alias. *alias* is the alias name, e.g. ``latin-1``.
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*canonical* is the character set's canonical name, e.g. ``iso-8859-1``.
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The global charset alias registry is kept in the module global dictionary
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``ALIASES``.
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.. function:: add_codec(charset, codecname)
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Add a codec that map characters in the given character set to and from Unicode.
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*charset* is the canonical name of a character set. *codecname* is the name of a
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Python codec, as appropriate for the second argument to the :class:`str`'s
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:meth:`~str.encode` method.
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