https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f4e280d8c5461fa5e928fa07f6cd1779a4a... commit: f4e280d8c5461fa5e928fa07f6cd1779a4ac43ba branch: 3.9 author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> date: 2022-04-02T17:40:31-07:00 summary: bpo-24563: Link encoding names to encoding declarations (GH-32274) (cherry picked from commit 01be5d6446abbdd95d0c18bd19a58a62b05568d8) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> files: M Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 77e0578f5d89b..17c0fb4a51eb4 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: