ASCII and Unicode [was Re: Managing Google Groups headaches]

2013-12-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 05:03:57 -0800, rusi wrote: Evidently (and completely inadvertently) this exchange has just illustrated one of the inadmissable assumptions: unicode as a medium is universal in the same way that ASCII used to be Ironically, your post was not Unicode. Seriously. I am

Re: ASCII and Unicode [was Re: Managing Google Groups headaches]

2013-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 December 2013 14:30:06 Steven D'Aprano did opine: On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 05:03:57 -0800, rusi wrote: Evidently (and completely inadvertently) this exchange has just illustrated one of the inadmissable assumptions: unicode as a medium is universal in the same way that ASCII

Re: ASCII and Unicode [was Re: Managing Google Groups headaches]

2013-12-06 Thread Roy Smith
Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info writes: Yes, it appears that MT-NewsWatcher is *deeply, deeply* confused about encodings and character sets. It doesn't just assume things are ASCII, but makes a half-hearted attempt to be charset-aware, but badly. I can only imagine

Re: ASCII and Unicode [was Re: Managing Google Groups headaches]

2013-12-06 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: - character 33 was permitted to be either the exclamation mark ! or the logical OR symbol | - consequently character 124 (vertical bar) was always displayed as a broken bar ¦, which

Re: ASCII and Unicode [was Re: Managing Google Groups headaches]

2013-12-06 Thread rusi
On Saturday, December 7, 2013 12:30:18 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 05:03:57 -0800, rusi wrote: Evidently (and completely inadvertently) this exchange has just illustrated one of the inadmissable assumptions: unicode as a medium is universal in the same way that

Re: ASCII and Unicode [was Re: Managing Google Groups headaches]

2013-12-06 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:33 PM, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: That seems to suggest that something is not right with the python mailing list config. No?? If in doubt, blame someone else, eh? I'd first check what your browser's actually sending. Firebug will help there. See if your form

Re: ASCII and Unicode [was Re: Managing Google Groups headaches]

2013-12-06 Thread MRAB
On 07/12/2013 02:41, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:33 PM, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: That seems to suggest that something is not right with the python mailing list config. No?? If in doubt, blame someone else, eh? I'd first check what your browser's actually sending.

Re: ASCII and Unicode [was Re: Managing Google Groups headaches]

2013-12-06 Thread rusi
On Saturday, December 7, 2013 8:11:45 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:33 PM, rusi wrote: That seems to suggest that something is not right with the python mailing list config. No?? If in doubt, blame someone else, eh? I'd first check what your browser's

Re: ASCII and Unicode [was Re: Managing Google Groups headaches]

2013-12-06 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 2:16 PM, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, December 7, 2013 8:11:45 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:33 PM, rusi wrote: That seems to suggest that something is not right with the python mailing list config. No?? If in doubt,