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Emacs and UTF-8 Encoding

From http://blog.jonnay.net/archives/820-Emacs-and-UTF-8-Encoding.html: 
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;; set up unicode
(prefer-coding-system       'utf-8)
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
;; This from a japanese individual.  I hope it works.
(setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
;; From Emacs wiki
(setq x-select-request-type '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING))
;; MS Windows clipboard is UTF-16LE
(set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-16le-dos)
Also, add this to the beginning of your source files when working with Python (otherwise you'll get "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file…" etc. errors): 
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

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