Remove # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-?

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

In Python 3, the default source file encoding is UTF-8. As far as the Python interpreter is concerned we could remove # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-.

Yet the encoding declaration might be useful to some IDEs, especially on Windows which still seems to be enforcing Windows-1252 as the default encoding on "Western" locales. On the other hand, VS tends to write into UTF-8-BOM (with an initial BOM) so we're doomed anyway!

[skangas]

This line is used by Emacs on some platforms. I see no benefit to removing it.

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

Emacs knows when it loads a Python file that Python files are UTF-8 files, doesn't it?

[skangas]

I guess this was removed in d31e0df, so I think this issue could be closed.