Functional Programming and python

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-10-01, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:36:28 +0000, Neil Cerutti quoted:
>
>>     Why can??t lambda forms contain statements?
>
> Gah! Please fix your news client! (I see you're using slrn.)
> The \x92 bytes found in your message are apostrophes
> (technically: right single quotation marks), encoded using the
> legacy Windows-1252 codec, but your news client is falsely
> advertising it as US-ASCII:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> It's almost 2014, it is unspeakably poor form that an
> application is still making this mistake. Is there an updated
> version of slrn that fixes this? Can you manually force it to
> use UTF-8? Can you report this as a bug?
>
> In case you aren't too clear on the concepts, here are two Must
> Read links:
>
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
> http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html

Thanks, Steve. I'm aware my news setup is crap when it comes to
character set/unicode support. I haven't been motivated to fix
it, because everything else about it works great for me.

I'm afraid slrn is stagnated, but it might provide at least some
support and I need to find out what.

-- 
Neil Cerutti