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Author Max.Cantor
Recipients Max.Cantor
Date 2013-05-22.22:43:16
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When you specify a nonexistent encoding at the top of a file, like so for example:

# -*- coding: fakefakefoobar -*-

The following exception occurs:

SyntaxError: encoding problem: with BOM

This is very unhelpful, especially in cases where you might have made a typo in the encoding.
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