GMimeEncodingConstraint

Used with functions like gmime.filter_best.FilterBest.encoding and gmime.object.ObjectWrap.encode as the 'constraint' argument. These values provide a means of letting the filter know what the encoding constraints are for the stream.

Values

ValueMeaning
_7bit0

The stream data must fit within the 7bit ASCII range.

_8bit1

The stream data may have bytes with the high bit set, but no null bytes.

Binary2

The stream may contain any binary data.