id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 12422,Django overrides the default email charset behaviour for utf-8,Simon Blanchard,Ramiro Morales,"{{{ # Don't BASE64-encode UTF-8 messages so that we avoid unwanted attention from # some spam filters. Charset.add_charset('utf-8', Charset.SHORTEST, Charset.QP, 'utf-8') }}} The above bit of code in django.core.mail overrides the standard Python behaviour for utf-8 in the Python email module. It would be better to set the charset by calling set_charset() on the Message before sending if needed rather than a global override. This behaviour and assumption is not documented anywhere in Django as far as I can tell. I think this is a case of the framework being a bit too clever. Not everyone using Django is using the django email sending methods nor wants Django to (silently) change the system defaults. For example, I use the standard Python email sending methods and was expecting the Python lib to behave as advertised but the encoding of my utf-8 messages kept coming out quoted-printable because of the override above. ",Bug,closed,Core (Mail),dev,Normal,fixed,charset utf-8,bnomis@…,Accepted,1,0,0,1,0,0