[Python-Dev] Non-ASCII characters in test_pep277.py in 2.3 (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
10 Oct 2002 10:00:44 +0100

"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson@bigpond.net.au> writes:

Stephen J. Turnbull:

> No current XEmacs recognizes cookies in the second line. I tried it, > it broke, I backed it out, had a bad attack of day job, and forgot to > fix the patch. :-( Where did the coding cookie originally come from? It seems to have arrived in Python from somewhere else, probably Emacs but I couldn't find a reference in PEP-263.

From the FSF Emacs 21.1 info file (node "Recognizing Coding Systems"):

   You can specify the coding system for a particular file using
the `-*-...-*-' construct at the beginning of a file, or a local
variables list at the end (*note File Variables::).  You do this
by defining a value for the "variable" named `coding'.  Emacs does
not really have a variable `coding'; instead of setting a
variable, this uses the specified coding system for the file.  For
example, `-*-mode: C; coding: latin-1;-*-' specifies use of the
Latin-1 coding system, as well as C mode.  When you specify the
coding explicitly in the file, that overrides
`file-coding-system-alist'.

Not sure if this existed in 20.x.

I think the emacs manual is online somewhere, but not sure where.

Cheers, M.

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