From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 00:40:55 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-24563: Link encoding names to encoding declarations (GH-32274) X-Git-Tag: v3.10.5~209 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce6af314ca8529d5ed0f307deb9c33029a69f4cb;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-24563: Link encoding names to encoding declarations (GH-32274) (cherry picked from commit 01be5d6446abbdd95d0c18bd19a58a62b05568d8) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy --- diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 21ad3731a324..d9e2cead958c 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: