On 2/5/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I´m trying desperately to tell the interpreter to put an 'á' in my > > string, so here is the code snippet: > > > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > > filename = u"Ataris Aquáticos #2.txt" > > f = open(filename, 'w') > > > > Then I save it with Windows Notepad, in the UTF-8 format. So: > > > > 1) I put the "magic comment" at the start of the file > > 2) I write u"" to specify my unicode string > > 3) I save it in the UTF-8 format > > > > And even so, I get an error! > > > > File "Ataris Aqußticos #2.py", line 1 > > SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xff' in file Ataris Aqußticos #2.py > > on line 1 > > It looks like you are saving the file in Unicode format (not utf-8) and > Python is choking on the Byte Order Mark that Notepad puts at the > beginning of the document. >
Notepad does support saving to UTF-8, and I was able to do this without the problem the OP was having. I also saved both with and without a BOM (in UTF-8) using SciTe, and Python worked correctly in both cases. > Try using an editor that will save utf-8 without a BOM, e.g. jedit or > TextPad. > > Kent > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
