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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:12:22 -0600
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> YBM wrote:
>
>> Le 14/08/2014 16:04, marc.vanhoomissen@gmail.com a =C3=A9crit :
>>> Hello YBM,
>>> I tried your suggestions, without improvement.
>>> Further, see my answer to Vincent Vande Vyre
>>> Thanks anyway.
>>
>> This is indeed very surprising. Are you sure that you
>> have *exactly* this line at the first or second (not
>> later !) line of your script :
>>
>> # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
>>
>> if a single caracter differs, it would fail.
>
> That's not correct. The encoding declaration is very flexible. Any of the=
se
> will be accepted:
>
> # This file uses the encoding: utf_8
> # coding=3DUTF-8
> # -*- coding: utf8 -*-
> # vim: set fileencoding=3Dutf-8 :
> # Uses encoding:utf8
> # I want my encoding=3DUtF_8 okay!
> #### textencoding=3D  UTf-8 blah blah blah
>
> and many, many other varieties. The rules are:
>
> (1) It must be a comment;
>
> (2) It must be in the first or second line of the file;
>
> (3) It must match the regular expression r"coding[:=3D]\s*([-\w.]+)"
>
>
> However, just because you declare the file to be UTF-8, doesn't mean it
> *actually is* UTF-8. If your text editor is configured to use (say)
> Latin-1, a UTF-8 encoding declaration will just give you garbage.
>
> * Fix your system to use UTF-8 by default.
>
> * Fix your editor to use UTF-8.
>
> * Add a UTF-8 encoding declaration.
>
> And then things should work.

And apart from all of that, if the OP is really using Python 3 then
UTF-8 is the default source encoding anyway.