[docs] [issue26369] unicode.decode and str.encode are unnecessarily confusing for non-ascii

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

If str.encode() raises a decoding exception, this is a programming bug. It would be bad to hide it.

FYI, the default encoding is not hardcoded 'ascii'. Google "Changing default encoding in Python". Maybe this will help in your program.

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