kill reference to default encoding #6889
diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
index c9b6720..3b33772 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
@@ -150,9 +150,8 @@
are more efficient and convenient.
Encodings don't have to handle every possible Unicode character, and most
-encodings don't. For example, Python's default encoding is the 'ascii'
-encoding. The rules for converting a Unicode string into the ASCII encoding are
-simple; for each code point:
+encodings don't. The rules for converting a Unicode string into the ASCII
+encoding, for example, are simple; for each code point:
1. If the code point is < 128, each byte is the same as the value of the code
point.