From 6e9b92ffdee68947da8278c83ebb16d5df7fa338 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brett Cannon Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 14:03:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-32963: Fix the tutorial to state source has a default encoding of ASCII --- Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst | 9 +-------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst index 3bf9c62ca87cc1..6c8609fabaeb52 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst @@ -126,14 +126,7 @@ The Interpreter and Its Environment Source Code Encoding -------------------- -By default, Python source files are treated as encoded in UTF-8. In that -encoding, characters of most languages in the world can be used simultaneously -in string literals, identifiers and comments --- although the standard library -only uses ASCII characters for identifiers, a convention that any portable code -should follow. To display all these characters properly, your editor must -recognize that the file is UTF-8, and it must use a font that supports all the -characters in the file. - +By default, Python source files are treated as encoded in ASCII. To declare an encoding other than the default one, a special comment line should be added as the *first* line of the file. The syntax is as follows::