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

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/27/2011 2:13 PM, Eugene Toder wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Isn't utf-8 itself same as ascii where no non-ascii symbols are used?

Yes, except for the content encoding header. Any mail reader today 
should know that and at least replace any non-ascii bytes (very rare in 
checkin messages) with some symbol and continue, rather than crash.

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Terry Jan Reedy