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Author	pitrou
Recipients	eric.araujo, jelie, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date	2010年11月02日.22:14:24
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Message-id	<1288736067.75.0.46823280161.issue10284@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> And my text string is "\xC9ric", that's all. You mean b"\xC9ric", right? > If you look at the source of the articles, you will for instance see > that the Subject: header field is not MIME-encoded. It is directly > written in gb2312. How is an NNTP client supposed to guess the encoding? Either a header is MIME-encoded, or it follows the RFC 3977 recommendation of UTF-8 ("The content of a header SHOULD be in UTF-8"), or it's unreadable.

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> And my text string is "\xC9ric", that's all.
You mean b"\xC9ric", right?
> If you look at the source of the articles, you will for instance see
> that the Subject: header field is not MIME-encoded. It is directly
> written in gb2312.
How is an NNTP client supposed to guess the encoding? Either a header is MIME-encoded, or it follows the RFC 3977 recommendation of UTF-8 ("The content of a header SHOULD be in UTF-8"), or it's unreadable.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010年11月02日 22:14:27	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, jelie
2010年11月02日 22:14:27	pitrou	set	messageid: <1288736067.75.0.46823280161.issue10284@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010年11月02日 22:14:24	pitrou	link	issue10284 messages
2010年11月02日 22:14:24	pitrou	create

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