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Subject: Re: Assignment Versus Equality
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On Monday 27 June 2016 09:28:00 Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:48 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > PS Google Groups is wise enough to jump through hoops trying to
> > encode my message above as latin-1, then as Windows 1252 and only
> > when that does not work as UTF-8
>
> There is nothing admirable about GG (or any other newsreader or email
> client) defaulting to legacy encodings like Latin-1 and especially not
> Windows 1252.
>
> Certainly the user should be permitted to explicitly set the encoding,
> but otherwise the program should default to UTF-8.
>
Both of you mentioned 2 bad words, now go and warsh yer fungers with some=20
of grandma's lye soap.=20
>
> --
> Steven
> =E2=80=9CCheer up,=E2=80=9D they said, =E2=80=9Cthings could be worse.=E2=
=80=9D So I cheered up, and
> sure enough, things got worse.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
=2D-=20
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
=2DEd Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>