On Tue, Jun 28, 2016, at 22:27, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Are you suggesting that email clients and newsreaders should silently > mangle the text of your message behind your back? Because that's what > it sounds like you're saying.
That was how I was characterizing Rustom Mody's position; he seemed to be justifying a supposed "feature" of Google Groups to mangle Unicode arrow characters into ASCII pseudorepresentations such as <- and ->. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list