latin1 encoding as default?

[Helmut Jarausch]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Helmut Jarausch <jarausch at skynet.be> writes:
> 
> 
>>Many thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for,
>>it works fine in a Python 2.3 scirpt
>>but how can I tell idle .
>>If I enter
>># _*_ coding: latin1 _*_
>>
>>as the first line in 'idle'
>>it doesn't have an effect.
>>
>>Did I miss something?
> 
> 
> What IDLE version are you using? The IDLE in 2.3 supports that, as
> does idlefork. I recommend you spell this as 
> 
> # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
> 

I have difficulties. Here my output

Python 2.3b1+ (#1, May 24 2003, 15:02:32)
[GCC 3.2.3] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IDLE 0.8 -- press F1 for help
 >>> # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-

 >>> print "Ätsch"
Unsupported characters in input
 >>>


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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany