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. -- Steven “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
