> Since when is "Google Groups" a newsreader? So far as I know, all > the display/formatting is handled by my web browser and GG merely stuffs > messages into an HTML wrapper...
It also transmits this HTML wrapper via HTTP, where it claims that the charset of the HTML is UTF-8. To do that, it must have converted the original message from Latin-1 to UTF-8, which must have required interpreting it as Latin-1 in the first place. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list