Switching from Apche to LiteSpeed

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:29:47 +0000, John Gordon wrote:

> In <9a35850a-7fcb-4585-84ae-5e13cef9173a at googlegroups.com>
> =?ISO-8859-7?B?zd/q7/Igw+rxMzPq?= <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Just today i changed from HostGator to EZPZ, which means from Apache
>> Web Server to LiteSpeed.
> 
>> Does anyone know why iam seeing what iam seeing at http://superhost.gr
> 
>> I see weird encoding although inside my python script i have:
> 
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>> # -*- coding=utf-8 -*
> 
> I believe the syntax is to use a colon, not an equal sign.  i.e.:
> 
>     # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> 
> Your example is also missing the final dash after the asterisk.


I don't think that will make a difference. Encoding declaration lines are 
*very* flexible, and will match either a colon or equals sign. So long as 
it matches this regular expression, it will be understood:

coding[=:]\s*([-\w.]+)

http://docs.python.org/2/reference/lexical_analysis.html#encoding-declarations


However, it is important that the encoding being declared matches the 
actual encoding being used! For example, if you take a Latin-1 file, and 
declare that it is UTF-8, it won't magically turn the Latin-1 file into 
UTF-8. Instead you'll get bytes being decoded wrongly.



-- 
Steven