On Feb 5, 11:55 am, [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 > , but no encoding declared; seehttp://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
I can't tell from your email if you get the message when you try to open or close the file. So, I recommend that you read the following article as it explains the whole unicode business quite well: http://www.pyzine.com/Issue008/Section_Articles/article_Encodings.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
