Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 03:47 am, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > >> Just in case anyone cares, Gnus shows me those indentations as octal >> codes, \302\240\302\240 (followed by one ASCII space). I guess a >> \302\240 is a NO-BREAK SPACE in UTF-8, and I guess Gnus does not know >> this because there is no charset specification in the headers. That >> seems to be missing whenever I see these codes instead of properly >> rendered characters and bother to check the headers. > > Some of us care :-)
Thank you. > On the other hand, your post sent from Gnus is lying. Despite > containing non-ASCII bytes (i.e. octal \302\240), it sends these > headers: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > US-ASCII is 7-bit only and only defines values for ord \0 through \177 > in octal. Yes. Gnus made me go through a dialogue to send the message, and I didn't understand what all the options meant. So I probably told it to lie. My bad. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
