Question

I’m writing python code on eclipse and whenver I use hebrew characters I get the following syntax error:

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ‘\xfa’ in file … on line 66, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

How do I declare unicode/utf-8 encoding?

I tried adding

-*- coding: Unicode -*-

or

-*- coding: utf-8 -*-

in the commented section in the beginnning of the py file. It didn’t work.

I’m running eclipse with pydev, python 2.6 on windows 7.

Answer 1

I had the same thing and it was because I’d tried to do:

a='言語版の記事'

When I should have done:

a=u'言語版の記事'

I think it’s python/pydev complaining when trying to parse the source, rather than eclipse as such.