Internationalised email headers in Python
Here is how you create international characters in email headers. Useful if people have umlauts and accents in their name:
>>> from email.message import Message
>>> from email.header import Header
>>> msg = Message()
>>> h = Header('p\xf6stal', 'iso-8859-1')
>>> msg['Subject'] = h
>>> print msg.as_string()
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?p=F6stal?=
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