[EuroPython] Incorrect charset for the Europython mailing list

[Veit Schiele]

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Hi Laura,

the administrators of the list do not have access to the file system.
Therefore, we are not able to change the encoding of the list. After
all, we have removed the m-dashes from the footer.

Kind regards, Veit

Am 16.04.14 02:16, schrieb Laura Creighton:
> The EP mailing list is configured so that it has:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> while the footer has:
> EuroPython 2014 \x96 Berlin, 21th\x9627th July
> 
> Notice the two \x96 characters.  The intent is almost certainly to have those
> interpreted in the windows-1252 charset, where they mean an en-dash.
> 
> But in us-ascii, this is an illegal character.  And my mailer complains 
> bitterly about the problem.
> 
> So it looks like we need to fix 2 things.  The first is to change the charset
> from "us-ascii" to something more reasonable, especially since most European 
> languages do not fit into ascii -- utf-8 perhaps?
> 
> And the second thing is to change the footer text to have whatever is an
> en-dash in whatever charset we decide to use.
> 
> Are there any reasons not to move to utf-8 ?
> 
> Laura
> 
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