Commit 20003f91 authored by Brett Cannon's avatar Brett Cannon Committed by GitHub

bpo-32963: Fix the tutorial to state source has a default encoding of ASCII (GH-5961)

parent aa40f922
......@@ -126,14 +126,7 @@ The Interpreter and Its Environment
Source Code Encoding
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By default, Python source files are treated as encoded in UTF-8. In that
encoding, characters of most languages in the world can be used simultaneously
in string literals, identifiers and comments --- although the standard library
only uses ASCII characters for identifiers, a convention that any portable code
should follow. To display all these characters properly, your editor must
recognize that the file is UTF-8, and it must use a font that supports all the
characters in the file.
By default, Python source files are treated as encoded in ASCII.
To declare an encoding other than the default one, a special comment line
should be added as the *first* line of the file. The syntax is as follows::
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