ruff detects E902 when using special character in code

[quebt]

• Keywords: utf-8, E902
• script example. Use § or ü in a string to trigger the bug.

import os

test = 'abc§'
print(os.getcwd())
    print('wrong indent')

• ruff settings non special simply
  ruff check .\test.py

• version 0.4.8

• Output. Here interesting: the syntax bug is not reported, instead ruff stops.
  

[MichaReiser]

Can you try changing the encoding to UTF8 in the bottom-toolbar (click Windows-1252). Ruff only supports UTF8 encoded files.

Related issue: #6791

[quebt]

ok, that did the trick. but what about other encodings? we have a system which does not support python code in utf-8...

[MichaReiser]

Ruff doesn't support other encodings today. Can you tell us more about your system that doesn't support utf8? What python version are you using?

[quebt]

Hi,
It is a trading system from FIS. Actually it does support utf-8 but since there are scripts from the vendor in non utf-8 we habe sometimes no choice. Currently we are on Python 3.7.9 but we are upgrading to 3.9.18.

[charliermarsh]

I'm going to call this unsupported but happy to hear more about your use-case and whether we can help with it in ways other than supporting alternate encodings.