GO vs Python

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska at gmail.com>:

>>> >>> 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.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>
> 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.

Thank goodness for Python3, which has freed us from these archaic
confusions.


Marko