Re: python-shell-send-region uses wrong encoding?

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 30.10.2013 13:08, schrieb Yuri Khan:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Stefan Monnier
> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> IIUC the second added line "-*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n" should not be needed,
>>> as that's the default at the Python side anyway.
>>
>> Based on the OP's experience, it seems this is not true.
>> Also, the doc I can find indicates that the default is ASCII (and was
>> latin-1 in the past, which is what the OP seems to be seeing).
>
> There is Python, and, on the other hand, there is Python.
>
> In some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu), the default Python is
> version 2.x, whose default encoding is ASCII (and has been that way
> since at least 2.6).
>
> On the other hand, the current version of Python is 3.x, where a big
> Unicode revolution has happened and now the default encoding is UTF-8.
>
> Both of these Pythons recognize Emacs-style and vim-style encoding
> declarations, and in addition the UTF-8 byte order mark (which can be
> called Notepad-style encoding declaration).
>
>

Thanks clarifying this, so I stand corrected.

Andreas