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Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly

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Date Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:41:51 -0400
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On 14 Oct 2012 21:01:03 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> "Usenet has no attachments" -- that's like saying that the Web has no 
> advertisements. Maybe the websites you visit have no advertisements, but 
> there's a *vast* (and often disturbing) part of the WWW that has 
> advertisements, some sites are nothing but advertisements.
> 
> And so it is with Usenet, there is a vast (and often disturbing) area of 
> Usenet containing attachments, and often nothing but attachments. The 
> vast volume of all these attachments are such that it is getting hard to 
> find ISPs that provide free access to binary newsgroups, but some still 
> do, and dedicated for-fee Usenet providers do too.

	Classically, NNTP did not have "attachments" as seen in MIME email.

	It did have "binaries" in some encoding -- UUE, BASE64, or some
newer format, but these encodings were the raw body of the post(s), not
something "attached" as a separate file along with a text body.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly jjmeric <jjmeric@free.fr> - 2012-10-14 18:55 +0200
  Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-10-14 19:19 +0200
    Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-14 21:01 +0000
      Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-10-14 21:41 -0400
        Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-15 07:35 +0000
        Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-10-15 07:45 -0400
      Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-10-15 07:42 +0200
  Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-10-14 18:31 +0100
    Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly jjmeric <jjmeric@free.fr> - 2012-10-14 21:36 +0200
      Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 15:19 -0600
        Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly jjmeric <jjmeric@free.fr> - 2012-10-14 23:39 +0200
    Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-10-14 16:30 -0400

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