[python-win32] proper coding declaration

[raf at raf.org]

bob gailer wrote:

> my python file starts with # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> 
> There is a unicode character 2501 in the file
> 
> I am editing with python for windows 3.7 build 224
> 
> Saving the file results in an error: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character
> \u2501
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> -- 
> Bob Gailer

Just guessing but maybe the problem is that it's not a
UTF8 file and Python is falling back to latin1 (because
it knows it isn't ASCII).

You say there is a unicode character in it (\u2501).
But that character, encoded in UTF-8 is 0xE2 0x94 0x81.

Try changing the charset declaration to match the
actual unicode encoding that it is using. Not sure what
it is but possibly UTF-16.

cheers,
raf