On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:36:28 +0000, Neil Cerutti quoted: > Why cant lambda forms contain statements?
Gah! Please fix your news client! (I see you're using slrn.) The \x92 bytes found in your message are apostrophes (technically: right single quotation marks), encoded using the legacy Windows-1252 codec, but your news client is falsely advertising it as US-ASCII: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit It's almost 2014, it is unspeakably poor form that an application is still making this mistake. Is there an updated version of slrn that fixes this? Can you manually force it to use UTF-8? Can you report this as a bug? In case you aren't too clear on the concepts, here are two Must Read links: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
