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Ideas for a RFC 6532 API

Policy

- the internal charset has to be changeable (or at least a USASCII/UTF8 switch is needed)

_header_value_parser

- use settings from policy in _fold

Steps

change the Header class in header.py to make the default charset changeable (add '_internal_charset' property)
NOT SURE ABOUT THIS: create new classes in the headerregistry.py (e.g. UnicodeAddressHeader as inheritor of AddressHeader
provide an alternative header map (e.g. _unicode_header_map) using the new classes
HeaderRegistry: create an inherited class with the _unicode_header_map as default.

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create a policy making use of the above

2026-02-14 16:08