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r74740 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-11 16:42:29 -0400 (Fri, 11 Sep 2009) | 1 line
kill reference to default encoding #6889
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
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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 'UTF-8'
-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.