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[Python-Dev] utf-8 encoding in checkins?

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Mar 27 17:21:08 CEST 2011 
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:06:49 -0500
skip at pobox.com wrote:
> It seems that all checkin mails are utf-8-encoded.  This makes it
> challenging to view checkin mails if you have a text-based mail reader.  (I
> use VM within XEmacs.  XEmacs doesn't seem to support utf-8 out of the box.
> I believe you need to add MULE to it.)

Hmm, are you sure? Software (especially mail-reading software) that
doesn't support utf-8 in 2011 should be considered extremely broken.

(I understand you may be a native English speaker, but do you never
receive non-ASCII utf-8 e-mail at all? doesn't it get displayed
properly?)

Regards

Antoine.
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