On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, August 25, 2014 7:56:55 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Michael Torrie: > >> > On 08/25/2014 06:24 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: >> >>> display artist names like M�tley Cr�e and Beyonc�, I would be more >> >> Your mail client seems to be 7-bit ASCII!! >> > No it came through fine here, originally. It must be Google Groups >> > that messed up the characters in displaying the message and in your >> > reply. > >> I saw it fine (<URL: news:comp.lang.python>), but there were no MIME >> headers. MIME might not be part of the NNTP standard, but is a good idea >> even there. GNUS must have guessed the encoding based on my locale. > >> Marko > > Mysterious... > > This page > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-August/677408.html > shows charset as us-ascii > And it shows Mötley Crüe and Beyoncé > So it means ö ü é are us-ascii? > > [Of course I understand none of all this] > > रुसि [To force GG to unicode this message] > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Your browser helpfully ignores that header and uses ISO-8859-1, which *is* the actual encoding of that message. Gmail displays the message properly me, but apparently Google Groups defaults to UTF-8, and that results in question marks. -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post | only UTF-8 makes sense -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
