Laurent Pointal wrote: > ... >> # vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 : > ... >> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > ... > > This is not "emacs-style", this is Python normalized source encoding > directive for correct interpretation of u"..." strings by Python > interpreter. > > See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/
The -*- syntax is emacs-style. The encoding directive is anything that matches r"coding[=:]\s*([-\w.]+)". The docs recommend to use either emacs-style or vim-style. See http://docs.python.org/ref/encodings.html Cheers, -- Roberto Bonvallet -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list