Bengt Richter wrote: > Please bear with me for a few paragraphs ;-) Please note that source code encoding doesn't really have anything to do with the way the interpreter executes the program - it's merely a way to tell the parser how to convert string literals (currently on the Unicode ones) into constant Unicode objects within the program text. It's also a nice way to let other people know what kind of encoding you used to write your comments ;-)
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