[Doc-SIG] non-ascii docstrings

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Mar 24, 2006, at 8:32 PM, Edward Loper wrote:

> David Goodger wrote:
>>> In particular, the question is whether I should assume that the
>>> docstring is encoded with the encoding specified by the "-*- coding
>>> -*-" directive at the top of the file.
>>
>> Yes, it's unreasonable.  But such code is buggy IMO.  It's also
>> unreasonable to expect Epydoc to correctly interpret garbage input.
>
> Small consolation to the user who's just trying to learn how to use a
> package that they didn't write.

Can't you make it an option (messy/pure)?

--Chris