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--- a/Doc/library/email.mime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.mime.rst
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Here are the classes:
.. currentmodule:: email.mime.text
-.. class:: MIMEText(_text, _subtype='plain', _charset='us-ascii')
+.. class:: MIMEText(_text, _subtype='plain', _charset=None)
Module: :mod:`email.mime.text`
@@ -185,5 +185,5 @@ Here are the classes:
minor type and defaults to :mimetype:`plain`. *_charset* is the character
set of the text and is passed as a parameter to the
:class:`~email.mime.nonmultipart.MIMENonMultipart` constructor; it defaults
- to ``us-ascii``. No guessing or encoding is performed on the text data.
-
+ to ``us-ascii`` if the string contains only ``ascii`` codepoints, and
+ ``utf-8`` otherwise.