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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex index c8ecb4f..56d5bb7 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Comments are ignored by the syntax; they are not tokens. \subsection{Encoding declarations\label{encodings}} If a comment in the first or second line of the Python script matches -the regular expression "coding[=:]\s*([\w-_.]+)", this comment is +the regular expression \regexp{coding[=:]\e s*([\e w-_.]+)}, this comment is processed as an encoding declaration; the first group of this expression names the encoding of the source code file. The recommended forms of this expression are @@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ which is recognized also by GNU Emacs, and \end{verbatim} which is recognized by Bram Moolenar's VIM. In addition, if the first -bytes of the file are the UTF-8 signature ($'\xef\xbb\xbf'$), the -declared file encoding is UTF-8 (this is supported, among others, by -Microsoft's notepad.exe). +bytes of the file are the UTF-8 byte-order mark +(\code{'\e xef\e xbb\e xbf'}), the declared file encoding is UTF-8 +(this is supported, among others, by Microsoft's \program{notepad}). If an encoding is declared, the encoding name must be recognized by Python. % XXX there should be a list of supported encodings. |