Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Roman Suzi]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, John Baxter wrote:

> 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?

Yes, we did it. But I was said latin-1 will be the default. And now
appears that it is not.
 
> Do we have to do it again?  
> 
> (Rhetorical questions, or a near relative...I won't be seeing answers 
> anyone cares to offer.)
> 
>   --John
> 

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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