[Python-Dev] PEP 263 -- Python Source Code Encoding (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:50:35 +0100

"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:

barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes: > I don't think it works for XEmacs. I've got a MULE-aware XEmacs > 21.4.6 and while it asks if I want to set the local variables in the > -*- line, I still see "Raw" in the modeline, and I see the following > letters in print string (with funny little lines above the > characters): iAOOEI. See attached capture. That doesn't seem right, > does it? Indeed not: It interprets it as latin-1. I hope XEmacs will eventually follow the GNU Emacs conventions here, since I think they are useful.

After reading some of the Emacs docs, I think we should allow a more flexible coding line:

-*- ... coding: (\w+) ... -*-

because you will sometimes want to add more variables to that Emacs init line than just the encoding declaration.

Does anybody know where XEmacs is moving w/r to this ? (and for that matter what about vi, vim, etc. ?)

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