Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpol...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> display artist names like M�tley Cr�e and Beyonc�, I would be more >>> >> Your mail client seems to be 7-bit ASCII!! >>> > No it came through fine here, originally. >> >>> I saw it fine (<URL: news:comp.lang.python>), but there were no MIME >>> headers. MIME might not be part of the NNTP standard, but is a good idea >>> even there. GNUS must have guessed the encoding based on my locale. >> >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-August/677408.html >> shows charset as us-ascii >> And it shows Mötley Crüe and Beyoncé >> So it means ö ü é are us-ascii? > > Your browser helpfully ignores that header and uses ISO-8859-1, which > *is* the actual encoding of that message. Gmail displays the message > properly me, but apparently Google Groups defaults to UTF-8, and that > results in question marks.
Thank goodness for Python3, which has freed us from these archaic confusions. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list