Strange Symbol In Pygettext.Py

Greetings,

Do you have any idea why the symbol in the code (see picture below) is put there?
You may find the file under C:\Python33\Tools\i18n\ and pygettext.py



And a follow-up question: How is that symbol called?

Usually basic editors make that symbol for non-ascii characters. You could open it up with a hex editor to see exactly what it is, or you could probably find an option in your current editor to show hex values for them or something.. but no clue what it is.

Python does allow UTF-8 encoding, is there an encoding comment at the top? It's possible that it's a UTF-8 character that your font doesn't have a glyph for, or that your editor isn't set to display UTF-8.

EDIT: The versions of pygettext.py that I looked up online didn't have any characters there. Maybe it's an error?