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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 10:37:04 -0600
Subject: Re: pydoc3.5 borks on my Mac
From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:85005

I finally got sort of smart, and started up a pydoc server. Looking at
the sqlite3 docs through my browser, I see right off the bat, I see

#-*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*-
# pysqlite2/__init__.py: the pysqlite2 package.
#
# Copyright (C) 2005 Gerhard H=C3=A4ring <gh@ghaering.de>

so my challenge is how to tell Python my terminal's encoding? It's
clearly assuming ASCII. Mine is actually normally set to UTF-8, but I
can select from a number of different encodings in the Preferences.

Thx,

Skip