To unicode or not to unicode

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> 	Since when is "Google Groups" a newsreader? So far as I know, all
> the display/formatting is handled by my web browser and GG merely stuffs
> messages into an HTML wrapper...

It also transmits this HTML wrapper via HTTP, where it claims that the
charset of the HTML is UTF-8. To do that, it must have converted the
original message from Latin-1 to UTF-8, which must have required
interpreting it as Latin-1 in the first place.

Regards,
Martin