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Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code?

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On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:47:00 +0100, jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 sep, 10:49, Steven D'Aprano <steve
> +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>
>> Even with a source code encoding, you will probably have problems with
>> source files including \xe2 and other "bad" chars. Unless they happen to
>> fall inside a quoted string literal, I would expect to get a  
>> SyntaxError.
>>
>
> This is absurd and a complete non sense. The purpose
> of a coding directive is to inform the engine, which
> is processing a text file, about the "language" it
> has to speak. Can be a html, py or tex file.
> If you have problem, it's probably a mismatch between
> your coding directive and the real coding of the
> file. Typical case: ascii/utf-8 without signature.

Now read what Steven wrote again.  The issue is that the program contains  
characters that are syntactically illegal.  The "engine" can be perfectly  
correctly translating a character as a smart quote or a non breaking space  
or an e-umlaut or whatever, but that doesn't make the character legal!

-- 
Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses

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Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2011-09-12 10:43 +0200
  Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-12 18:49 +1000
    Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? Dave Angel <davea@ieee.org> - 2011-09-12 08:09 -0400
    Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2011-09-12 07:47 -0700
      Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2011-09-12 22:39 +0100
        Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2011-09-13 00:49 -0700
          Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-13 18:15 +1000
            Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2011-09-13 02:04 -0700
    Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? ron <vacorama@gmail.com> - 2011-09-13 05:31 -0700
      Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2011-09-13 15:33 +0200
      Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2011-09-14 01:02 +1000
        Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2011-09-13 18:29 +0300
      Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code? Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2011-09-13 20:13 +0200

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