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From: giacomo boffi <pecore@pascolo.net>
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Subject: Re: ASCII and Unicode
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 17:05:34 +0100
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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:

> Ironically, your post was not Unicode.  [...] Your post was sent
> using a legacy encoding, Windows-1252, also known as CP-1252

i access rusi's post using a NNTP server,
and in his post i see

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

is it possible that what you see is an artifact
of the gateway?