[Eric] Eric 4 encoding

Sjujsckij Nickolaj sterkrig at home.no
Fri May 15 11:18:12 BST 2009


  That's Python issue, not Eric's one. Try running your test script from  
shell, you'll see the same error.
I don't think there's any way of "fixing" this. I use Eric template for #  
-*- encoding

> Hi all - I am running Eric 4.3.3 (r3080) and have found a problem with  
> encoding. When I try the following example (to print a British pound  
> sign) I get the following error dialog:
>                     The file /home/ed/source/erictest/tcode.py contains  
> the syntax error
>                      Non-Ascii character '\xc2' in file  
> /home/ed/source/erictest/tcode.py
>                      on line 1, but no encoding declared; see  
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html
>                      for details at line 1, character 0.
>
> Here is the offending code:
>
>         a="£"
>         print a
>
> I find that inserting a "#coding: utf-8" at the top fixes this. I have  
> looked at eric4.py and it seems to set the string encoding to utf-8 in  
> it's setup but maybe looses this setting somewhere ?
> I quite often have pound signs in my code and are constantly forgetting  
> to set the coding setting. Is there a setting somewhere to fix this ?  
> Forgive me if this is something obvious !
>
> Kind Regards,
> BgEddy
>
>
>
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