On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Michael Welle <mwe012...@gmx.net> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: > >> On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 06:35 pm, Michael Welle wrote: >> >>> my original data is email. The mail header says it's utf-8, but you will >>> find three or four different encodings in one email. I think at the >>> sending side they just glue different text fragments from different >>> sources together without thinking about the encoding. >> >> Is this spam? In my experience, the only email that is that badly >> constructed is spam. I can't imagine how it could be email from a person, >> coming from a mail client like Thunderbird or Outlook. > it's mail from an international company. It's not generated by a person > using an ordinary email client. Other than that your are right ;).
So..... buggy commercial email. Great. Just brilliant. Can you bill them for your time developing this hack? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list