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

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    >> I'm not disputing that, and I understand that my current choice of
    >> mail reader limits me.  I was just asking if it would be possible
    >> (read: fairly easy) to only generate utf-8 when it was necessary.

    Eugene> Isn't utf-8 itself same as ascii where no non-ascii symbols are
    Eugene> used?

Sure, but the mime header tells VM that the body of the part is utf-8
encoded, and it's base64-encoded.  If it wasn't base64-encoded I could
simply hit D in my mail reader to expand the part.

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