compile(unicode) & source encoding

[Denis S. Otkidach]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Just wrote:

J> > 2. Why there is now option to define encoding of source
J> passed to
J> > compile function?  Yes, I can define encoding by prefixing
J> my
J> > code with '# -*- coding: %s -*-\n' % encoding, but it's not
J> > handy.
J>
J> You can just pass a unicode string (in 2.3 at least), so you
J> can do the
J> decoding yourself.

There is a big difference bitween oridinal (one byte per
character) encoding and utf-8, so this breaks code dealing with
8-bit strings.

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Denis S. Otkidach
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