Re: Gmail eats Python

From	Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Gmail eats Python
Date	2015-07-26 08:37 +0300
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Steven D'Aprano writes:

> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 03:47 am, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>
>> Just in case anyone cares, Gnus shows me those indentations as octal
>> codes, \302\240\302\240 (followed by one ASCII space). I guess a
>> \302\240 is a NO-BREAK SPACE in UTF-8, and I guess Gnus does not know
>> this because there is no charset specification in the headers. That
>> seems to be missing whenever I see these codes instead of properly
>> rendered characters and bother to check the headers.
>
> Some of us care :-)

Thank you.

> On the other hand, your post sent from Gnus is lying. Despite
> containing non-ASCII bytes (i.e. octal \302\240), it sends these
> headers:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> US-ASCII is 7-bit only and only defines values for ord \0 through \177
> in octal.

Yes. Gnus made me go through a dialogue to send the message, and I
didn't understand what all the options meant. So I probably told it to
lie. My bad.

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Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-25 20:47 +0300
  Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-25 20:52 +0300
    Re: Gmail eats Python Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-25 20:05 +0200
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  Re: Gmail eats Python Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2015-07-25 18:44 +0000
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              Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 14:34 -0700
              Re: Gmail eats Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-27 11:47 +1000
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              Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 14:54 -0700
  Re: Gmail eats Python Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-26 14:49 +1000
    Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-26 08:37 +0300

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