PEP: Defining Unicode Literal Encodings (revision 1.1)

[Roman Suzi]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

>directive unicodeencoding = 'latin-1'

>#!/usr/local/python
>""" Module Docs...
>"""
>directive unicodeencoding = 'latin-1'
>...
>u = "HИllТ WЖrld !"
>...

Is there any need for new directive like that?
Maybe it is possible to use Emacs-style "coding" directive
in the second line instead:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding=utf-8 -*-
...


Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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