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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2009-09-11 20:42:29 (GMT)
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@@ -150,9 +150,8 @@ Generally people don't use this encoding, instead choosing other encodings that
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.