On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 6:58:26 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > 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.
Its called sarcasm... Also how is GG deliberately downgrading clear unicode content to be kind to obsolete clients at recipient end different from python 2 → 3 making breaking changes but not going beyond ASCII lexemes? Just think: Some poor mono-lingual ASCII-user may suffer an aneurism... Completely atrocious! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
