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 ?
>
> Thanks.
You must know the encoding produced by your editor.
If you want to experiment, you could save a small file and run
od -Ax -tx1 thefile.py
to see exactly what codepoints appear. Compare those with the
charts at http://www.unicode.org/ and you can probably surmize
a good guess.
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