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 of grandma's lye soap. > > -- > Steven > “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and > sure enough, things got worse.
Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
