Eclipse/PyDev - BOM Lexical Error

[TheOne]

On Oct 4, 9:26 pm, de... at web.de (Diez B. Roggisch) wrote:
> TheOne <daewon.y... at gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi.
>
> > I installed eclipse/pydev today.
> > I created a pydev project and added python source files with utf-8
> > BOM.
> > Eclipse/Pydev reports lexical error :
> >   Lexical error at line 1, column 1. Encountered: "\ufeff" (65279),
> > after : ""
>
> > I want the source files to have BOM character. How could I shut off
> > this error msg?
>
> No idea. Why do you want it? Is somebody else processing these scripts?
> If it's about declaring them to be utf-8, you should consider placing
>
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>
> on the first or second line. That works for python, and should work for eclipse.
>
> Diez

I also included that "# -*- coding:" line. I just don't want me or
other
project members to accidentally save them in different encoding. So I
(and
my team) thought it would be safe to have the BOM character.

Anybody any idea?

TIA.

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Daewon YOON