(``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: