+ payload = part.get_payload(decode=True)
+ subtype = part.get_content_subtype()
+
+ if not isinstance(payload, unicode):
+ charset = part.get_content_charset()
+
+ # Check that we have a charset that we understand. Otherwise,
+ # ignore it and fallback to our standard set.
+ if charset is not None:
+ try:
+ codec = codecs.lookup(charset)
+ except LookupError:
+ charset = None
+
+ # If there is no charset or if it is unknown, then try some common
+ # charsets before we fail.
+ if charset is None:
+ try_charsets = ['utf-8', 'windows-1252', 'iso-8859-1']
+ else:
+ try_charsets = [charset]