[wingide-users] encoding problem

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brian downing wrote:
> for the coding I had |||# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-|||.  I added this after
> I reverted back.  Is that comment different from |||#coding:utf-8 |||?

There are various valid forms of this and I think this is equivalent.

> I got the problem fixed.  I changed the encoding back to cp1252,
> reverted the file, added the utf header, and set the encoding in wing to
> utf.

Glad that worked.  I'm guessing you're setting the Files > Default 
Encoding preference, which is not used if there's a valid coding comment.

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