Add a small description of PEP 263.

7e1472ef · Guido van Rossum · 88d43a49 · 7e1472ef
Commit 7e1472ef authored Aug 05, 2002 by Guido van Rossum
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@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 Core and builtins
- Encoding declarations (PEP 263, phase 1) have been implemented.
+- Encoding declarations (PEP 263, phase 1) have been implemented.  A
+  comment of the form "# -*- coding: <encodingname> -*-" in the first
+  or second line of a Python source file indicates the encoding.
 - list.sort() has a new implementation.  While cross-platform results
  may vary, and in data-dependent ways, this is much faster on many