From ee07cb1d700ef8454fe3d17f1226ad222b77f40f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:13:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] get_content_charset(): RFC 2046 $4.1.2 says charsets are not
 case sensitive.  Coerce the argument to lower case.

---
 Lib/email/Message.py | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/email/Message.py b/Lib/email/Message.py
index 87ab309885c..16ae12082ee 100644
--- a/Lib/email/Message.py
+++ b/Lib/email/Message.py
@@ -760,8 +760,9 @@ class Message:
     def get_content_charset(self, failobj=None):
         """Return the charset parameter of the Content-Type header.
 
-        If there is no Content-Type header, or if that header has no charset
-        parameter, failobj is returned.
+        The returned string is always coerced to lower case.  If there is no
+        Content-Type header, or if that header has no charset parameter,
+        failobj is returned.
         """
         missing = []
         charset = self.get_param('charset', missing)
@@ -769,8 +770,9 @@ class Message:
             return failobj
         if isinstance(charset, TupleType):
             # RFC 2231 encoded, so decode it, and it better end up as ascii.
-            return unicode(charset[2], charset[0]).encode('us-ascii')
-        return charset
+            charset = unicode(charset[2], charset[0]).encode('us-ascii')
+        # RFC 2046, $4.1.2 says charsets are not case sensitive
+        return charset.lower()
 
     def get_charsets(self, failobj=None):
         """Return a list containing the charset(s) used in this message.