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Asked: 2026-05-26T15:47:25+00:00

I’m receiving emails with the Google App Engine Python and storing those in the

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I’m receiving emails with the Google App Engine Python and storing those in the datastore.

class LogSenderHandler(InboundMailHandler):
    def receive(self, mail_message):
        logging.info("Received a message from: " + mail_message.sender)

When I receive an email from an ASCII address, everything works fine:

Me [me@gmail.com] is stored as Me [me@gmail.com]

However, if the sender values contains non-ascii chars, the data value stored looks like this:

Mr Kröber [mr.kroeber@gmail.com] is stored as =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mr_Kr=F6ber?= [mr.kroeber@gmail.com]

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  1. Editorial Team

    The subject is encoded according to RFC 2047. See the Internationalized headers section of the email module.

    Here is an example decoding the subject to Unicode:

    >>> s='=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mr_Kr=F6ber?= [mr.kroeber@gmail.com]'
>>> from email.header import decode_header
>>> decode_header(s)
[('Mr Kr\xf6ber', 'iso-8859-1'), ('[mr.kroeber@gmail.com]', None)]
>>> u = u' '.join(w.decode(e or 'ascii') for w,e in decode_header(s))
>>> u
u'Mr Kr\xf6ber [mr.kroeber@gmail.com]'
>>> print u
Mr Kröber [mr.kroeber@gmail.com]
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