Ross Ridge <rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > > > It's all about declaring your charset. In Python as well as in your > > newsreader. If you don't declare your charset it's ASCII for you - in > > Python as well as in your newsreader. > > Except in practice unlike Python, many newsreaders don't assume ASCII. > The original article displayed fine for me.
Right. Exactly. Wasn't that exact issue a driving force behind unicode's creation in the first place? :) To avoid horrors like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_to_Russia_with_krokozyabry.jpg ... and people getting into arguments on usenet and having to use rebuttals like "Well, it looked fine to *me*--there's nothing wrong, we're just using incompatible encodings!"? But you're right--specifying in usenet-posts is like turn-signals.... Can we get back to Python programming, now? :) -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
