Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[John Baxter]

In article <7xvg001gjy.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
 Paul Rubin <phr-n2003b at NOSPAMnightsong.com> wrote:

> "Anders J. Munch" <andersjm at dancontrol.dk> writes:
> > Now to define a not-in-comment syntax, that trivial.  Just remove the
> > in-comment part and write, as a statement:
> > 
> > -*- coding: Latin-1 -*-
> 
> That is daring.  I like it.

Didn't we do all this long ago, when PEP 263 was being beaten to death 
here?

Do we have to do it again?  

(Rhetorical questions, or a near relative...I won't be seeing answers 
anyone cares to offer.)

  --John