Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 11 years ago
#12422 closed
Django overrides the default email charset behaviour for utf-8 — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Simon Blanchard | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Core (Mail) | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | charset utf-8 |
| Cc: | bnomis@… | Triage Stage: | Accepted |
| Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | yes |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
# 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.