a question about Chinese characters in a Python Program

[John Machin]

On Oct 22, 11:07 am, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:
> John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> writes:

> > What is that 0+IBM-127 +IBw-guess+IB0- gibberish in your posting?
>
> It wasn't in my message as sent to my news server, nor as I read the
> message in comp.lang.python. The message was encoded using UTF-8.
> Perhaps it's since been munged in transit to your eyeballs by any of a
> number of intermediaries.

Would you believe:

   >>> '0+IBM-127 +IBw-guess+IB0-'.decode('utf7')
   u'0\u2013127 \u201cguess\u201d'