Document that "coding: utf-8" is supported in requirements.txt · Issue #7182 · pypa/pip (original) (raw)

As mentioned in #6401 (comment), requirements files support # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- declarations. Some details about this convention can be found here.

A sentence should be added to the Requirements File Format section of the docs saying that this is supported, for users that want their requirements files to always be interpreted as UTF-8 no matter what.

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