June 23, 2003
9:33 p.m.
"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. Regards, Martin