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authorAdrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>2011-04-01 16:10:22 +0000
committerAdrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>2011-04-01 16:10:22 +0000
commit94af19c43fad3e42d64981e22fe15b844f1f9eb6 (patch)
treeed67e78446f376d0429cbd045500540676222f78 /docs/ref/unicode.txt
parent7099d465abad0e6fd7c5ff096dc8ab55c14ecfdd (diff)
Changed e-mail to email throughout documentation and codebase. The one exception is translation strings, which I didn't want to disrupt
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@15967 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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diff --git a/docs/ref/unicode.txt b/docs/ref/unicode.txt
index c84347844b..bd11d2a4b8 100644
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+++ b/docs/ref/unicode.txt
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ passing them around at will, because ASCII is a subset of UTF-8.
Don't be fooled into thinking that if your :setting:`DEFAULT_CHARSET` setting is set
to something other than ``'utf-8'`` you can use that other encoding in your
bytestrings! :setting:`DEFAULT_CHARSET` only applies to the strings generated as
-the result of template rendering (and e-mail). Django will always assume UTF-8
+the result of template rendering (and email). Django will always assume UTF-8
encoding for internal bytestrings. The reason for this is that the
:setting:`DEFAULT_CHARSET` setting is not actually under your control (if you are the
application developer). It's under the control of the person installing and
@@ -304,16 +304,16 @@ A couple of tips to remember when writing your own template tags and filters:
translation objects into strings. It's easier to work solely with Unicode
strings at that point.
-E-mail
+Email
======
-Django's e-mail framework (in ``django.core.mail``) supports Unicode
+Django's email framework (in ``django.core.mail``) supports Unicode
transparently. You can use Unicode data in the message bodies and any headers.
-However, you're still obligated to respect the requirements of the e-mail
-specifications, so, for example, e-mail addresses should use only ASCII
+However, you're still obligated to respect the requirements of the email
+specifications, so, for example, email addresses should use only ASCII
characters.
-The following code example demonstrates that everything except e-mail addresses
+The following code example demonstrates that everything except email addresses
can be non-ASCII::
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage