python syntax error : non-ascii character

Question

Hi I'm trying understand why I'm getting this error.

when I deploy my project on google appengine, getting error like below

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xea' in file /base/data/home/apps/s~frikijihyo/1.377756632466273994/app/controllers.py on line 32, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

my code: python

    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

    flash(u'Korean 게시글을 작성했습니다.', 'success')
    return redirect(url_for('article_list'))

i wrote coding: utf-8.

what is 'character \xea'? how can i solve this problem?

please have a look here hope it will solve your problem http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4635188/django-non-ascii-character — Dinkar Thakur, Aug 07 '14 at 07:28
Can you provide a hex dump of (pertinent parts of) line 32? `sed -n 32p app/controllers.py | xxd` and edit your question to include this information. — tripleee, Aug 07 '14 at 08:17
Also maybe the first line just to see that there's nothing funny in the `coding:` declaration. Are you on Python 2 or Python 3? — tripleee, Aug 07 '14 at 08:19
Use Python 3 and you have implicit UTF-8 coding for all source files, among all the other goodies. — Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні, Aug 07 '14 at 08:24

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '14 at 08:21

what is 'character \xea'?

\xea is the first byte of the utf-8 encoding of '게'. It is the first non-ASCII byte in your source-code file.

how can i solve this problem?

Ensure that the "coding" comment is on one of the first two lines of the file. If the comment appears anywhere else, it has no effect.

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