On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:02:01 +0100, Дамјан Георгиевски wrote:
>>> I don't know what an IBQ is. >> >> +IBQ- seems to be the way your newsreader displays the dashes that >> where in Ben's posting. I see "em dash" characters there: > > I see IBQ too ... also weird is that he has Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=utf-7 Why weird? Makes perfect sense: In [98]: print '+IBQ-'.decode('utf-7') — In [99]: unicodedata.name('+IBQ-'.decode('utf-7')) Out[99]: 'EM DASH' So there are newsreaders out there that can't or at least don't decode UTF-7. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list