Julien ÉLIE <jul...@trigofacile.com> added the comment:

Antoine, a news client could guess it because of the Content-Type: header field 
(in this example, it mentions charset="gb2312").
Yet, articles without a Content-Type: header field exist in the wild...
There is no way to always make the right guess, unfortunately.
News clients try to do their best :-)


Yes, I mean b"\xC9ric".  4 bytes.

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