email.charset.add_charset()

email.charset.add_charset(charset, header_enc=None, body_enc=None, output_charset=None)

Add character properties to the global registry.

charset is the input character set, and must be the canonical name of a character set.

Optional header_enc and body_enc is either Charset.QP for quoted-printable, Charset.BASE64 for base64 encoding, Charset.SHORTEST for the shortest of quoted-printable or base64 encoding, or None for no encoding. SHORTEST is only valid for header_enc. The default is None for no encoding.

Optional output_charset is the character set that the output should be in. Conversions will proceed from input charset, to Unicode, to the output charset when the method Charset.convert() is called. The default is to output in the same character set as the input.

Both input_charset and output_charset must have Unicode codec entries in the module’s character set-to-codec mapping; use add_codec() to add codecs the module does not know about. See the codecs module’s documentation for more information.

The global character set registry is kept in the module global dictionary CHARSETS.