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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
index 798bee2..29178e8 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
@@ -445,10 +445,8 @@ To convert a string into a sequence of bytes using a specific encoding,
string objects provide an :func:`encode` method that takes one argument, the
name of the encoding. Lowercase names for encodings are preferred. ::
- >>> "äÃ\u0020Ã".encode('utf-8')
- b'A*A A'
-
-.. % above example needs beefing up by a unicode dude
+ >>> "Äpfel".encode('utf-8')
+ b'\xc3\x84pfel'
.. _tut-lists: