https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/20003f9162631c47b79202316036d13d744... commit: 20003f9162631c47b79202316036d13d74484e4c branch: 2.7 author: Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com> committer: GitHub <noreply@github.com> date: 2018-03-02T14:10:21-08:00 summary: bpo-32963: Fix the tutorial to state source has a default encoding of ASCII (GH-5961) files: M Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst index 3bf9c62ca87c..6c8609fabaeb 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::