ASCII and Unicode

[rusi]

On Saturday, December 7, 2013 9:35:34 PM UTC+5:30, giacomo boffi wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano  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?

Thanks for checking that!