#16948: Fix quopri encoding of non-latin1 character sets.

Lib/email/charset.py

@@ -392,6 +392,19 @@ class Charset:
                 string = string.encode(self.output_charset)
             return email.base64mime.body_encode(string)
         elif self.body_encoding is QP:
+            # quopromime.body_encode takes a string, but operates on it as if
+            # it were a list of byte codes.  For a (minimal) history on why
+            # this is so, see changeset 0cf700464177.  To correctly encode a
+            # character set, then, we must turn it into pseudo bytes via the
+            # latin1 charset, which will encode any byte as a single code point
+            # between 0 and 255, which is what body_encode is expecting.
+            #
+            # Note that this clause doesn't handle the case of a _payload that
+            # is already bytes.  It never did, and the semantics of _payload
+            # being bytes has never been nailed down, so fixing that is a
+            # longer term TODO.
+            if isinstance(string, str):
+                string = string.encode(self.output_charset).decode('latin1')
             return email.quoprimime.body_encode(string)
         else:
             if isinstance(string, str):

Lib/email/test/test_email.py

@@ -670,6 +670,27 @@ class TestEncoders(unittest.TestCase):
         msg = MIMEText('文', _charset='euc-jp')
         eq(msg['content-transfer-encoding'], '7bit')
 
+    def test_qp_encode_latin1(self):
+        msg = MIMEText('\xe1\xf6\n', 'text', 'ISO-8859-1')
+        self.assertEqual(str(msg), textwrap.dedent("""\
+            MIME-Version: 1.0
+            Content-Type: text/text; charset="iso-8859-1"
+            Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
+
+            =E1=F6
+            """))
+
+    def test_qp_encode_non_latin1(self):
+        # Issue 16948
+        msg = MIMEText('\u017c\n', 'text', 'ISO-8859-2')
+        self.assertEqual(str(msg), textwrap.dedent("""\
+            MIME-Version: 1.0
+            Content-Type: text/text; charset="iso-8859-2"
+            Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
+
+            =BF
+            """))
+
 
 # Test long header wrapping
 class TestLongHeaders(TestEmailBase):

Misc/NEWS

@@ -212,6 +212,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+
+- Issue #16948: Fix quoted printable body encoding for non-latin1 character
+  sets in the email package.
+
 - Issue #17089: Expat parser now correctly works with string input not only when
   an internal XML encoding is UTF-8 or US-ASCII.  It now accepts bytes and
   strings larger than 2 GiB.