- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: 21 Sep 2003 10:42:22 -0500
- To: "Francois Yergeau" <FYergeau@alis.com>
- Cc: "WWW-Tag" <www-tag@w3.org>, ietf-xml-mime@imc.org
>> 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 -- Aaron Swartz: http://www.aaronsw.com/
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