Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes: > Ironically, your post was not Unicode. [...] Your post was sent > using a legacy encoding, Windows-1252, also known as CP-1252 i access rusi's post using a NNTP server, and in his post i see Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 is it possible that what you see is an artifact of the gateway?