Ben Finney wrote: >> - ASCII is the default coding > > Er? How did this happen? > > To be specific, what about all the movement toward UTF-8?
See PEP 263. ASCII is the default encoding for source code; if you want to use UTF-8 in source code, either put # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- into the file, or start the file with the UTF-8 signature (if your editor supports that). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
