On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:11:46 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: > In article <mailman.5730.1329065268.27778.python-l...@python.org>, > Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:48:36 -0500, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> >> >As Steven D'Aprano pointed out, it was missing some commonly used US >> >symbols such as ¢ or ©. > > That's interesting. When I wrote that, it showed on my screen as a cent > symbol and a copyright symbol. What I see in your response is an upper > case "A" with a hat accent (circumflex?) over it followed by a cent > symbol, and likewise an upper case "A" with a hat accent over it > followed by copyright symbol.
Somebody's mail or news reader is either ignoring the message's encoding line, or not inserting an encoding line. Either way, that's a bug. > Oh, for the days of ASCII again :-) I look forward to the day, probably around 2525, when everybody uses UTF-32 always. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
