Thanks -- I thought that a while ago we agreed not to have non-7-bit
characters (e.g. in names of Authors).  But it is weird that sage-main
runs fine whlie the clone does not.

John

2009/2/27 mabshoff <[email protected]>:
>
>
>
> On Feb 27, 1:26 pm, John Cremona <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
>> From my newly built 3.4.alpha0 I made a clone but it will not run,
>> complaining about things like this:
>>
>> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file
>> /home/john/sage-3.4.alpha0/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/combinat/ 
>> sloane_functions.py
>> on line 6381, but no encoding declared; 
>> seehttp://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.htmlfor details
>> (sloane_functions.py, line 6380)
>>
>> That one is Mobius, spelled Mo"bius (with an o-umlaut character).  And
>> before that I had a problem with Gro"bner in interfaces/singular.py.
>>
>> Is this somehow caused by the ReST/Sphinx stuff?  It is hard to review
>> patches when clones don't run...
>
> Yes, in Python files we deal with this by setting an encoding. It
> might be time to get rid of non-7 bit ASCII characters in the
> documentation - I complained about this a while ago in sage-combinat-
> devel.
>
> If we cannot set encoding in ReST files I will fix the problem before
> 3.4.rc0 is out tonight. I made this a 3.4 blocker at #5398.
>
>> John
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
> >
>

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