On Sunday 07 January 2018 16:22:57 Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > Am 05.01.18 um 22:15 schrieb Michael Torrie: > > Please, no! We don't need emoji in this group. Fortunately the vast > > majority of posters use plain text (as is the etiquette) and so we > > don't have to worry about that kind of nonsense. > > It's not needed, but shouldn't pose any big problems with modern > software? I'm using Thunderbird over NNTP, and this shows up as > graphics to me: > > 🐍 💻 > But here its broken and I am looking at two pairs of vertical boxes because it is not properly mime'd. If you use chars or gliphs from a non-default charset, it needs to demarcated with a mime-boundary marker followed by the new type definition. Your email/news agent did not do that.
> (a snake and a computer) Unless this message is blocked at the > NNTP-List boundary, it should show the same on any recent mail reader. > > Christian Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list