Unicode formatting for Strings

[robson.cozendey.rj at gmail.com]

Hi,

I´m trying desperately to tell the interpreter to put an 'á' in my
string, so here is the code snippet:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
filename = u"Ataris Aquáticos #2.txt"
f = open(filename, 'w')

Then I save it with Windows Notepad, in the UTF-8 format. So:

1) I put the "magic comment" at the start of the file
2) I write u"" to specify my unicode string
3) I save it in the UTF-8 format

And even so, I get an error!

  File "Ataris Aqußticos #2.py", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xff' in file Ataris Aqußticos #2.py
on line 1
, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/
pep-0263.html for det
ails

I don´t know how to tell Python that it should use UTF-8, it keeps
saying "no encoding declared" !

Robson