Martin v. Löwis wrote:
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
... but some of them are also worried about raising the bar teaching Python to newbies. They don't want to start the Python course explaining advanced features like source code encodings.
They don't have to. All they have to do is to arrange IDLE so that it always stores files as UTF-8 with BOM, and then everything will work out just fine, with no need of teaching.
That's a good hint, but it only works with IDLE and Notepad, doesn't it ? Other editors or Python IDEs will probably need some more time to grow such a feature. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Software directly from the Source (#1, Jun 24 2003)
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