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Mail helper library breaks with unicode recipient names #334
Description
I encountered an issue using the helper library to send mails to recipients with unicode first name / last name:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sendgrid/helpers/mail/mail.py", line 379, in __init__ self.value = value
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sendgrid/helpers/mail/mail.py", line 395, in value self._value = str(value)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
sendgrid-python/sendgrid/helpers/mail/mail.py
Line 395 in a5c1561
Setting the encoding of the python document to utf-8 does not resolve/affect this issue. The code is converting unicode values to ascii.
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thinkingserious commentedon Aug 17, 2017
Thanks for the heads up. I've added this to our backlog.
For my own reference, I think this should do the trick:
self._value = str(value).encode('utf-8')For this issue to gain priority in our backlog, we need additional +1's or a PR. When we receive a PR, that provides the biggest jump in priority.
thinkingserious commentedon Aug 17, 2017
@mehronkugler,
Do you mind providing some sample content that is causing the breakage? Thanks!