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Oh, you are right. I even noted that bug in my PyCon talk, but immediately forgot about it :( I do intend to fix it.
You can get it to work by explicitly passing the charset:
 >>> x = MIMEText('йцукен', _charset='utf8')
 >>> str(x)
'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8"\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n0LnRhtGD0LrQtdC9\n'
When I asked the use case, I meant specifically for calling encode_quopri, etc. Given the above, do you need it anymore?