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Author jelie
Recipients eric.araujo, jelie, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date 2010-11-02.22:43:15
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Antoine, a news client could guess it because of the Content-Type: header field (in this example, it mentions charset="gb2312").
Yet, articles without a Content-Type: header field exist in the wild...
There is no way to always make the right guess, unfortunately.
News clients try to do their best :-)


Yes, I mean b"\xC9ric".  4 bytes.
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2010-11-02 22:43:16jeliesetrecipients: + jelie, pitrou, eric.araujo, r.david.murray
2010-11-02 22:43:16jeliesetmessageid: <1288737796.7.0.968299484534.issue10284@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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