title: how do I specify extended ascii (i.e. range(256)) in the python magic encoding specifier line?
body: <p>I'm using mako templates to generate specialized config files.  Some of these files contain extended ASCII chars (>127), but mako chokes saying that the chars are out of range when I use:</p>
  
  <pre><code>## -*- coding: ascii -*-
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So I'm wondering if perhaps there's something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>## -*- coding: eascii -*-
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That I can use that will be ok with the range(128, 256) chars.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  
  <p>Here's the dump of the offending section of the file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>000001b0  39 c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6  c7 c8 c9 ca cb cc cd ce  |9...............|
  000001c0  cf d0 d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 d6  d7 d8 d9 da db dc dd de  |................|
  000001d0  df e0 e1 e2 e3 e4 e5 e6  e7 e8 e9 ea eb ec ed ee  |................|
  000001e0  ef f0 f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6  f7 f8 f9 fa fb fc fd fe  |................|
  000001f0  ff 5d 2b 28 27 73 29 3f  22 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20  |.]+('s)?".      |
  00000200  20 20 74 6f 6b 65 6e 3a  20 57 4f 52 44 20 20 20  |  token: WORD   |
  00000210  20 20 22 5b 41 2d 5a 61  2d 7a 30 2d 39 c0 c1 c2  |  "[A-Za-z0-9...|
  00000220  c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 ca  cb cc cd ce cf d0 d1 d2  |................|
  00000230  d3 d4 d5 d6 d7 d8 d9 da  db dc dd de df e0 e1 e2  |................|
  00000240  e3 e4 e5 e6 e7 e8 e9 ea  eb ec ed ee ef f0 f1 f2  |................|
  00000250  f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 fa  fb fc fd fe ff 5d 2b 28  |.............]+(|
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The first character that mako complains about is 000001b4.  If I remove this section, everything works fine.  With the section inserted, mako complains:</p>
  
  <pre><code>UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 19: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It's the same complaint whether I use 'ascii' or 'latin-1' in the magic comment line.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>Greg</p>