https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/01be5d6446abbdd95d0c18bd19a58a62b05... commit: 01be5d6446abbdd95d0c18bd19a58a62b05568d8 branch: main author: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> committer: terryjreedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> date: 2022-04-02T20:13:37-04:00 summary: bpo-24563: Link encoding names to encoding declarations (GH-32274) files: M Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index b69d0fbdd41f8..dba1a9dd2e15a 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -101,12 +101,11 @@ addition, if the first bytes of the file are the UTF-8 byte-order mark (``b'\xef\xbb\xbf'``), the declared file encoding is UTF-8 (this is supported, among others, by Microsoft's :program:`notepad`). -If an encoding is declared, the encoding name must be recognized by Python. The +If an encoding is declared, the encoding name must be recognized by Python +(see :ref:`standard-encodings`). The encoding is used for all lexical analysis, including string literals, comments and identifiers. -.. XXX there should be a list of supported encodings. - .. _explicit-joining: