Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > And my text string is "\xC9ric", that's all.
You mean b"\xC9ric", right? > If you look at the source of the articles, you will for instance see > that the Subject: header field is not MIME-encoded. It is directly > written in gb2312. How is an NNTP client supposed to guess the encoding? Either a header is MIME-encoded, or it follows the RFC 3977 recommendation of UTF-8 (“The content of a header SHOULD be in UTF-8”), or it's unreadable. ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10284> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
