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Asked: 2026-05-24T02:20:08+00:00

A file in UTF-8 encoding has an è character (e with accent grave) embedded

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A file in UTF-8 encoding has an è character (e with accent grave) embedded in comment delimiters for Python. Django complains about this character and will not render the page. How can I resolve this?

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    The SyntaxError Django is raising already points you in the right direction.

    It is always a good thing to actually read exceptions. In your case, it will have said something along the lines of

    Non-ASCII character ‘\xc3’ in file /home/zakx/../views.py on line 84, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details (views.py, line 84)

    If you’d then read PEP-0263, you could learn that there are some ways to tell Python (and your editor!) which encoding your files are in. Generally, you will want to use UTF-8 encoding whenever possible. Therefore, writing one of the following lines into the first line (or second, if you use a shebang) will tell Python to use UTF-8 for that file.

    # coding=utf8
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
# vim: set fileencoding=utf8 :
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