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diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index f0b3d0a..41ea89f 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -96,10 +96,9 @@ which is recognized also by GNU Emacs, and :: which is recognized by Bram Moolenaar's VIM. -If no encoding declaration is found, the default encoding is UTF-8. In -addition, if the first bytes of the file are the UTF-8 byte-order mark -(``b'\xef\xbb\xbf'``), the declared file encoding is UTF-8 (this is supported, -among others, by Microsoft's :program:`notepad`). +If no encoding declaration is found, the default encoding is UTF-8. If the +implicit or explicit encoding of a file is UTF-8, an initial UTF-8 byte-order +mark (b'\xef\xbb\xbf') is ignored rather than being a syntax error. If an encoding is declared, the encoding name must be recognized by Python (see :ref:`standard-encodings`). The |