cantabile wrote: > Hi, being a newbie in Python, I'm a bit lost with the '-*- coding : -*-' > directive. > > I'm using an accented characters language. Some of them are correctly > displayed while one doesn't. I've written : > -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > > Is this wrong ? > > Where can I find a pratical explanation about these encodings ?
The coding line tell the interpreter to assume that the file is encoded as utf-8. It's the job of the editor that you are using, to actually encode the file as utf-8. The coding directive uses a format that is automatically recognized by the emacs editor. If you are using another editor, you'll have to search its menus for the proper way to save files as utf-8. -- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
