On 2013-10-01, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:36:28 +0000, Neil Cerutti quoted: > >> Why can??t 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
Thanks, Steve. I'm aware my news setup is crap when it comes to character set/unicode support. I haven't been motivated to fix it, because everything else about it works great for me. I'm afraid slrn is stagnated, but it might provide at least some support and I need to find out what. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
