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 , but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/ pep-0263.html for det ails I don´t know how to tell Python that it should use UTF-8, it keeps saying "no encoding declared" ! Robson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list