From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:42:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: kill reference to default encoding #6889
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a1~2598
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f316975ac23378c805d5816a15250e3134a1e1e;p=python

kill reference to default encoding #6889
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
index c9b6720fed..3b337727f6 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
@@ -150,9 +150,8 @@ 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'
-encoding.  The rules for converting a Unicode string into the ASCII encoding are
-simple; for each code point:
+encodings don't.  The rules for converting a Unicode string into the ASCII
+encoding, for example, are simple; for each code point:
 
 1. If the code point is < 128, each byte is the same as the value of the code
    point.