Sage chokes on utf-8 in .sage files

[malb]

On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Lars Fischer wrote:

Hello,

this question is related to the thread "SAGE chokes on French
character":
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/af850956c4
ed137f/34a34d6cf23c4d89?lnk=gst&q=encoding#34a34d6cf23c4d89 two weeks ago.
As I understand it, there is a patch which works only for the notebook.

I want to use umlauts or more general utf-8 encoded files attached to
a sage session in a console. (In Python I would use
# -- encoding: utf-8 --
as second line magic encoding hint, but the preparser prepends its
three line "This file was *autogenerated.... comment and destroys the
encoding hint mechanism .)

If I delete the preparser comment, so that the encoding line becomes
the second line, then python and sage print the umlaut and the error
"Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file .... " does not occur.

Component: user interface

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/2593

[malb]

allow utf-8 in .sage files

[sagetrac-mabshoff]

comment:1

Attachment: trac_2593.patch.gz

Nice patch, it fixes the issue and applies cleanly to my 2.11.alpha0 tree. Positive review.

Cheers,

Michael

[sagetrac-mabshoff]

comment:2

Merged in Sage 2.11.alpha0