Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Roman Suzi]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Brian Quinlan wrote:

>> I think it's madness... There must be other ways to deal with it. I
>could
>> agree that for correct operation IDLE is demanding correct encoding
>> setting (and nonetheless workis incorrectly!), but plain scripts
>should 
>> be 8-bit clean, without any conditions! (Luckily, it's alpha version, 
>> so nothing really changed yet.)
>
>Just add:
># -*- coding: Latin-1 -*-
>
>to the top of your source files and you will be fine.

It's no problem with new scripts. But is there any reason to introduce this
useful feature by force? Requiring everyone to add one line to every script
they wrote?

It's not very pleasant...


Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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