GO vs Python

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, August 25, 2014 7:56:55 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Michael Torrie:
>
>> > On 08/25/2014 06:24 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>> >>> display artist names like M�tley Cr�e and Beyonc�, I would be more
>> >> Your mail client seems to be 7-bit ASCII!!
>> > No it came through fine here, originally. It must be Google Groups
>> > that messed up the characters in displaying the message and in your
>> > reply.
>
>> I saw it fine (<URL: news:comp.lang.python>), but there were no MIME
>> headers. MIME might not be part of the NNTP standard, but is a good idea
>> even there. GNUS must have guessed the encoding based on my locale.
>
>> Marko
>
> Mysterious...
>
> This page
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-August/677408.html
> shows charset as us-ascii
> And it shows Mötley Crüe and Beyoncé
> So it means ö ü é are us-ascii?
>
> [Of course I understand none of all this]
>
> रुसि [To force GG to unicode this message]
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Your browser helpfully ignores that header and uses ISO-8859-1, which
*is* the actual encoding of that message.  Gmail displays the message
properly me, but apparently Google Groups defaults to UTF-8, and that
results in question marks.

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