"Gerhard Fiedler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> If I understand you correctly, you are saying that if I distribute a file > with the following lines: > > s = "é" > print s > > I basically need to distribute also the information how the file is encoded > and every user needs to use the same (or a compatible) encoding for reading > this file? > > Is there a standard way to do this? Use Unicode strings, with an explicit encoding. Say no to ISO-8859-1 centrism. See: http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode particularly the "Unicode Literals in Python Source Code" section.
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