[Python-checkins] r67336 - python/trunk/Doc/howto/unicode.rst

[georg.brandl]

Author: georg.brandl
Date: Sat Nov 22 11:08:50 2008
New Revision: 67336

Log:
Fix error about "-*-" being mandatory in coding cookies.


Modified:
   python/trunk/Doc/howto/unicode.rst

Modified: python/trunk/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
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--- python/trunk/Doc/howto/unicode.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/howto/unicode.rst	Sat Nov 22 11:08:50 2008
@@ -410,9 +410,9 @@
     
 The syntax is inspired by Emacs's notation for specifying variables local to a
 file.  Emacs supports many different variables, but Python only supports
-'coding'.  The ``-*-`` symbols indicate that the comment is special; within
-them, you must supply the name ``coding`` and the name of your chosen encoding,
-separated by ``':'``.
+'coding'.  The ``-*-`` symbols indicate to Emacs that the comment is special;
+they have no significance to Python but are a convention.  Python looks for
+``coding: name`` or ``coding=name`` in the comment.
 
 If you don't include such a comment, the default encoding used will be ASCII.
 Versions of Python before 2.4 were Euro-centric and assumed Latin-1 as a default