Paul Boddie schrieb: > Perhaps, but the treatment by your mail/news software plus the > delightful Google Groups of the original text (which seemed intact in > the original, although I don't have the fonts for the content) would > suggest that not just social or cultural issues would be involved.
I do not see the point. If my editor or newsreader does display the text correctly or not is no difference for me, since I do not understand a word of it anyway. It's a meaningless stream of bits for me. It's save to assume that for people who are finding this meaningful their setup will display it correctly. Otherwise they could not work with their computer anyway. Until now I did not find a single Computer in my German domain who cannot display: ß. Gregor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list