Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

>> Programming languages are broken as designed?
> In this respect, yes.  All programming languages should provide for 
> charset
> identification of their source files.  Alas, none do, AFAIK.

Python does; it uses an emacs convention:

     To define a source code encoding, a magic comment must
     be placed into the source files either as first or second
     line in the file:

           #!/usr/bin/python
           # -*- coding: <encoding name> -*-

http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html

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