Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:48 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> PS Google Groups is wise enough to jump through hoops trying to >> encode my message above as latin-1, then as Windows 1252 and only >> when that does not work as UTF-8 > > There is nothing admirable about GG (or any other newsreader or email > client) defaulting to legacy encodings like Latin-1 and especially not > Windows 1252. > > Certainly the user should be permitted to explicitly set the encoding, > but otherwise the program should default to UTF-8.
The users should be completely oblivious to such technicalities as character encodings. As for those technicalities, a MIME-compliant client is free to use any well-defined, widely-used character encoding as long as it is properly declared. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
