[Python](EN) "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ..., but no encoding declared" related issue solution

Solution for “SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character …, but no encoding declared”

Environment and Prerequisite

• Python

Problem and Solution

Issue

• Error comes out like below when running python code.

python /home/twpower/MailReminder/reminder.py
...
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xeb' in file /home/twpower/MailReminder/reminder.py on line 12, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

Cause

• Issue which there was non ascii character in running code but encoding was not declared

Solution

• Add # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- to top of python code file.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
...

Reference

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18078851/syntaxerror-of-non-ascii-character