Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marko Rauhamaa Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: GO vs Python Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:04:31 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: <87mwashaps.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> References: <87tx50hcgg.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <71d65a4a-b1b9-49a3-8792-8a3d9b1f4d62@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ff5cf27ef3d5b31f034d3b72bdc27a41"; logging-data="27992"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19p9jCGlNB0hs+r6r1pGNco" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:l27bjndmthFw0AQ5CxlCBBMbag4= sha1:eeOQMLSss5ASUYxL50N5bwGjLf0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:76987 Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick : >>> >>> display artist names like M�tley Cr�e and Beyonc�, I would be more >>> >> Your mail client seems to be 7-bit ASCII!! >>> > No it came through fine here, originally. >> >>> I saw it fine (), but there were no MIME >>> headers. MIME might not be part of the NNTP standard, but is a good idea >>> even there. GNUS must have guessed the encoding based on my locale. >> >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-August/677408.html >> shows charset as us-ascii >> And it shows Mötley Crüe and Beyoncé >> So it means ö ü é are us-ascii? > > Your browser helpfully ignores that header and uses ISO-8859-1, which > *is* the actual encoding of that message. Gmail displays the message > properly me, but apparently Google Groups defaults to UTF-8, and that > results in question marks. Thank goodness for Python3, which has freed us from these archaic confusions. Marko