latin1 encoding as default?

[Martin v. Löwis]

Helmut Jarausch <jarausch at skynet.be> writes:

> is there a means to configure Python such that I
> can enter string constants in latin1-encoding?
> I've tried to set encoding='latin1' in site.py
> but it didn't accept characters like
> ä - I get unsupported characters in input.

Can you explain in more detail what you mean by "enter"?
FAICT, you might be talking about your text editor.

Regards,
Martin