There's currently a discussion about the different continuation whitespaces used in Generator._write_headers() and the Header class regarding issue 1974 (http://bugs.python.org/1974). Barry pointed out to move this discussion to this list, so here it is...
The problem can be summarized as follows: The default continuation whitespace for long headers in the Header class is the space character, but in Generator._write_headers() a tab is used to create a Header class from a string. This resulted in at least two bug reports (1974, 1645148) where there were problems with some email clients (e.g. Outlook) that didn't display the subject as expected. It turned out that the problem only occurs when a string is used to set the subject header but not when using the Header class directly. I've uploaded a patch to codereview (http://codereview.appspot.com/2407). It is just the result from spending some time on isolating the subject issue and maybe it has some use for the discussion here. Regards, Andi P.s.: As it is my first post on this list: Hello to all! ;-) - http://andialbrecht.de _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list Email-SIG@python.org Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
