On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:28:12 +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any functions in python to convert between different Japanese > coding systems?
If I'm not mistaken, the email standard specifies that only 7-bit ASCII- encoded bytes can be transported safely and reliably. The highest bit may be stripped by email server or client. Thus, to transport non-ASCII data safely, they cannot use "regular" encodings (e.g. utf-8, shift-jis, etc). I'm not sure what the standard is for Japanese character, but it seems that from reading the email header, the encoding used is a modified UTF-8. Try checking python's email module, they might have something for decoding 7-bit email-utf to 8-bit regular-utf or unicode string. After decoding the email-utf to regular-utf or unicode string, converting to other encoding should be trivial. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
