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Re: interactive help on the base object

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On 09/12/2013 06:44, rusi wrote:
> On Monday, December 9, 2013 10:56:28 AM UTC+5:30, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> On 12/08/2013 09:46 PM, rusi wrote:
>>> On Monday, December 9, 2013 9:46:30 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 18:58:09 -0800, rusi wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> Does GG not give you some way of inspecting the post's full headers?
>>> Well I spent half hour looking around -- both inside GG and of course
>>> searching before asking.
>
>> If you click on the little "down" triangle to the right
>> of the "reply" button for a message, you'll get a menu
>> that includes "Show Original".  You can see the headers
>> including the "Content-Type:" in that original.
>
> Thanks rurpy -- I only looked for how one may set and not just what is.
>
> So now I look at my own post in GG and see
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> So far so good.
>
> However when I point firefox at my own post in the archive
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-December/662015.html
>
> firefox shows encoding as Windows-1252.
>
> Note Ive looked at a dozen random pages and for all FF shows encoding as
> utf-8 except the python list archive ones which show as Win 1252
>
> Note looking into the html I see
> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
>
> How us-ascii becomes Win-1252 is outside the reach of my meagre intelligence!
>
> Though I still suspect something is not quite right with the python
> mailing-list and/or archive in respect of char encodings.
>
> [Am I beginning to sound like jmf is my guru :-) ]
>

I'd mention that I never seem to have a problem using Thunderbird on 
Windows 7, but I won't as I don't want to be accused of bullying, hating 
GG, or whatever.  Doh!!! :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Re: interactive help on the base object Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-08 23:48 +0000
  Re: interactive help on the base object Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-12-09 00:45 +0000
    Re: interactive help on the base object Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-12-08 17:09 -0800
    Re: interactive help on the base object Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-09 01:38 +0000
    Re: interactive help on the base object Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-09 01:43 +0000
      Re: interactive help on the base object Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-09 02:31 +0000
        Re: interactive help on the base object Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-12-08 18:41 -0800
          Re: interactive help on the base object rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-08 18:58 -0800
            Re: interactive help on the base object Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-09 04:16 +0000
              Re: interactive help on the base object rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-08 20:46 -0800
                Re: interactive help on the base object rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-12-08 21:26 -0800
                Re: interactive help on the base object rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-08 22:44 -0800
                Re: interactive help on the base object Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-09 09:44 +0000
          Re: interactive help on the base object Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-09 05:44 +0000
            Re: interactive help on the base object Alan Bawden <alan@scooby-doo.csail.mit.edu> - 2013-12-09 02:31 -0500
              Re: interactive help on the base object Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-09 18:39 +1100
                Re: interactive help on the base object Alan Bawden <alan@scooby-doo.csail.mit.edu> - 2013-12-10 00:34 -0500
                Re: interactive help on the base object Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-10 16:44 +1100
        Re: interactive help on the base object Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-09 13:57 +1100
    Re: interactive help on the base object Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-12-09 00:00 -0500
    Re: interactive help on the base object Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-09 23:48 +0000
  Re: interactive help on the base object Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-09 01:58 +0000

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