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Asked: 2026-05-17T02:44:09+00:00

I have the following code : msgtxt = é msg = MIMEText(msgtxt) msg.set_charset(‘ISO-8859-1’) msg[‘Subject’]

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I have the following code :

msgtxt = "é"

msg = MIMEText(msgtxt)
msg.set_charset('ISO-8859-1')
msg['Subject'] = "subject"
msg['From'] = "from@mail.com"
msg['To'] = "to@mail.com"
serv.sendmail("from@mail.com","to@mail.com", msg.as_string())

The e-mail arrive with é as its body instead of the expected é

I have tried :

msgtxt = "é".encode("ISO-8859-1")
msgtxt = u"é"
msgtxt = unicode("é", "ISO-8859-1")

all yield the same result.

How to make this work?

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance, J.

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  1. Editorial Team
    msgtxt = "é"
msg.set_charset('ISO-8859-1')

    Well, what’s the encoding of the source file containing this code? If it’s UTF-8, which is a good default choice, just writing the é will have given you the two-byte string '\xc3\xa9', which, when viewed as ISO-8859-1, looks like é.

    If you want to use non-ASCII byte string literals in your source file without having to worry about what encoding the text editor is saving it as, use a string literal escape:

    msgtxt = '\xE9'
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