My googling skills are a bit amiss too.  I searched for some kind of 
encoding pragma before reporting.  Perhaps just a footnote in the basic 
documentation of a python comment is the easiest solution.

Simon

On 1/10/2017 12:58 PM, Ammar Askar wrote:
> Ammar Askar added the comment:
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> Thanks for the link Jim, looks like my googling skills are a bit amiss.
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> I believe the reason the matching allows "encoding" is because a recommended format in the documentation is:
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> # vim:fileencoding=<encoding-name>
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> I think changing the behavior of the matching to be stricter and only match on "coding:" could result in breakages of such lines. Instead I think the error thrown could be more descriptive since I don't think it's too helpful.
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