Unable to run print('Réussi') on windows and on linux

[Steven D'Aprano]

YBM wrote:

> Le 14/08/2014 16:04, marc.vanhoomissen at gmail.com a écrit :
>> Hello YBM,
>> I tried your suggestions, without improvement.
>> Further, see my answer to Vincent Vande Vyre
>> Thanks anyway.
> 
> This is indeed very surprising. Are you sure that you
> have *exactly* this line at the first or second (not
> later !) line of your script :
> 
> # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
> 
> if a single caracter differs, it would fail.

That's not correct. The encoding declaration is very flexible. Any of these
will be accepted:

# This file uses the encoding: utf_8
# coding=UTF-8
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
# vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 :
# Uses encoding:utf8
# I want my encoding=UtF_8 okay!
#### textencoding=  UTf-8 blah blah blah

and many, many other varieties. The rules are:

(1) It must be a comment;

(2) It must be in the first or second line of the file;

(3) It must match the regular expression r"coding[:=]\s*([-\w.]+)"


However, just because you declare the file to be UTF-8, doesn't mean it
*actually is* UTF-8. If your text editor is configured to use (say)
Latin-1, a UTF-8 encoding declaration will just give you garbage.

* Fix your system to use UTF-8 by default.

* Fix your editor to use UTF-8.

* Add a UTF-8 encoding declaration.

And then things should work.



-- 
Steven