title: Python character encoding returns incorrect value
body: <p>I'm using Python 2.7.11 , I get a wrong value when getting decimal value of a character from extended ascii table</p>
  
  <pre><code># -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  str="è"
  print(ord(str[0])) #prints 232 decimal
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but the value of this char is 138 decimal
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  <p>When i remove the coding utf-8 line i get this error <code>SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe8'</code></p>