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@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ 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'
+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: