+1 to the utf-8 coding header and the © symbol. Red Hat's default text file 
encoding is utf-8 and I think the header looks professional. I don't know why 
pep-8 says not to use a mechanism they provide, but this is on of the few times 
I disagree with it.

On Oct 25, 2012, at 7:59 AM, Jay Dobies <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not only are people using different headers, but some people are changing 
> existing headers when they edit a file. It's not a technical problem but ends 
> up being noise in the pull request.
> 
> The main point of contention seems to be the utf-8 encoding. I'm guessing the 
> rationale there is that PEP-8 says not to do that for python 2. It's not 
> buying us much outside of the copyright symbol in the header itself; there's 
> nowhere in the code otherwise (that I've seen) that uses utf-8 characters.
> 
> I really don't care what decision we make. I'll update PyCharm to throw it in 
> and not think about it. But let's decide on one so we don't have all the 
> noise in pull requests of one developer changing what another initially put.
> 
> Cast your votes on what to use and we'll go with the majority.
> 
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