Thanks for the info. On Monday, December 9, 2013 9:46:30 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 18:58:09 -0800, rusi wrote:
> > PS Can some kind soul inform me whether I could convince GG to unicode > > my post? > Does GG not give you some way of inspecting the post's full headers? Well I spent half hour looking around -- both inside GG and of course searching before asking. > Anyway, here you go: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Your plan succeeded. > Personally, I wouldn't stress too much about this. While it would be > nice, and desirable, for GG to always use UTF-8 instead of picking a > different encoding based on the phase of the moon, the main thing is that > it picks a valid encoding. So far I see no reason to accuse GG of using > an invalid encoding. Valid but legacy encodings are better than > mojibake :-) Heh! I'm hardly a heavy-duty user of unicode -- just keeping track of bugs and workarounds. I am of course using 'bug' in a wide pragmatic sense of preventing communication. Mojibake is a technical problem. Non (human) communication is a more fundamental problem. Keeping an eye on the latter is (for me) a bigger issue than the former. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
