Source Encoding GBK/GB2312

[Steve Holden]

steven at lczmsoft.com wrote:

> When I specify an source encoding such as:
> 
> # -*- coding: GBK -*-
> or
> # -*- coding: GB2312 -*-
> 
> as the first line of source, I got the following error:
> 
> SyntaxError: 'unknown encoding: GBK'
> 
> 
> Does this mean Python does not support GBK/GB2312?  What do I do?
> 

Well, *your* Python might not support GTK:

sholden at dellboy ~
$ cat test90.py
# -*- coding: GBK -*-

print "Hello!"


sholden at dellboy ~
$ python test90.py
Hello!

but Python generally appears to. Do you have encodings/gbk.py in your 
library?

regards
  Steve