Re: [Python-Dev] Non-ASCII characters in test_pep277.py in 2.3

"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.

michael wrote:
From the FSF Emacs 21.1 info file (node "Recognizing Coding Systems"):
You can specify the coding system for a particular file...
I think the emacs manual is online somewhere, but not sure where.
tried googling for "You can specify the coding system for a particular file"? here's the "I feel lucky" hit: http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/emacs_195.html </F>
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