Python encoding utf error

Question

I am sending an email, and to send it I need to get three variables -- title, provider, and vendor_id. This is how I am getting it:

# # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
...
## subject
title = title.encode('utf-8')
subject = "%s - %s"%(provider, title)
msg['Subject'] = subject

## content
body_text = "The following has been successfully delivered:\n\nVendor ID: %s\nProvider: %s\nTitle: %s\n\nThank you."%((vendor_id, provider, title))
content = MIMEText(body_text, 'plain')

However, when I send the email the subject is encoded correctly (which includes the title), but the body_text is not (which also includes the title). This is how it looks:

Subject: testmovieprovider - Une soirée d'enfer

Body: The following has been successfully delivered:

Vendor ID: 02352_FR
Provider: testmovieprovider
Title: Une soirÃ©e d'enfer   <------ why is this happening?

Thank you.

Why is the title in the body not encoding correctly, and what would I need to change in order for it to look like the first?

Update: Thank you for the feedback. This is what worked:

MIMEText(body_text, 'plain') --> content = MIMEText(body_text, 'plain', 'UTF-8')

How are you sending the email? Does the email have proper Content-Type header with charset="utf-8" in it? — Avaris
– Avaris, Commented Mar 18, 2012 at 21:22
This appears to be a text encoding problem. The trouble here is you're attempting to implicitly coerce unicode characters into ASCII when you perform your mime conversion. Have you tried some other value for MIMEText? — MrGomez
– MrGomez, Commented Mar 18, 2012 at 21:27
The only other thing I've tried is content = MIMEText(body_text, 'utf-8'), but that gives me no text at all in the email. — David542
– David542, Commented Mar 18, 2012 at 21:29

Avaris · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-24 16:47:41Z

4

Set the encoding for the message:

content = MIMEText(body_text, 'plain', 'utf-8')

answered Mar 24, 2012 at 16:47

Avaris

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