Issue 2980: Protocol 0 is not truly restricted to ASCII.

diff --git a/Doc/library/pickle.rst b/Doc/library/pickle.rst
index 08b7daa0bc6897d024ef7bd9d2c65a1c8f8fbda1..a1e045d2ba8d01d2d8629f74a020f7d3d162b306 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/pickle.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pickle.rst
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ generated by :mod:`pickle`.
 
 There are currently 4 different protocols which can be used for pickling.
 
-* Protocol version 0 is the original ASCII protocol and is backwards compatible
-  with earlier versions of Python.
+* Protocol version 0 is the original human-readable protocol and is
+  backwards compatible with earlier versions of Python.
 
 * Protocol version 1 is the old binary format which is also compatible with
   earlier versions of Python.