Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> added the comment: > Antoine, a news client could guess it because of the Content-Type: > header field (in this example, it mentions charset="gb2312"). > Yet, articles without a Content-Type: header field exist in the > wild...
Unless I'm mistaken, Content-Type should only apply to the body, not the headers. Either the headers use UTF-8 (RFC 3977), or they should be MIME-encoded. Everything else is undecodable. > There is no way to always make the right guess, unfortunately. > News clients try to do their best :-) Well, a news client built on nntplib could also try to do its best :) > Yes, I mean b"\xC9ric". 4 bytes. Ok, perhaps we should allow bytes username and password. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <[email protected]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10284> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
