On Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:52:34 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 17:05:34 +0100, giacomo boffi wrote:
> > Steven D'Aprano writes: > >> Ironically, your post was not Unicode. [...] Your post was sent using > >> a legacy encoding, Windows-1252, also known as CP-1252 > > i access rusi's post using a NNTP server, and in his post i see > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > But *which post* are you looking at? > I have just looked at three posts from him: > Rusi's original post, where he used the ellipsis characters: > Subject: Re: Managing Google Groups headaches > Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 23:13:54 -0800 (PST) > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > Then his reply to me: > Subject: Re: ASCII and Unicode [was Re: Managing Google Groups headaches] > Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 18:33:39 -0800 (PST) > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > And finally, his reply to you: > Subject: Re: ASCII and Unicode > Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 08:41:10 -0800 (PST) > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > It seems to me that whatever client he is using to post (I believe it is > Google Groups web interface?) varies the encoding depending on what > characters are included in his post. > > is it possible that what you see is an artifact of the gateway? > I doubt it. Unfortunately the email mailing list archive doesn't display > all the email headers, but for the record here is his original post as > seen by the email mailing list: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-December/661782.html > If you view source, you'll see that Mailman (the mailing list software) > sets the webpage encoding to US-ASCII and encodes the ellipses to …, > which is a perfectly reasonable thing for a web page to do. So we can be > confident that when Mailman saw Rusi's post, it was able to correctly > decode the message and see ellipses. > Although I think that (probably) Google Groups is being stupid by varying > the charset (why not just use UTF-8 always?), at least it is setting the > charset correctly. I think GG is being being sweet and affectionate and delectable enough that a 💩 in the footer will keep it stuck at UTF-8 you think ?? :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list