From 2d936a42ac2b45ddc160eb90178cc9b4107639db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2022 14:33:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] codecs docs: fix grammar mistake (GH-29462) (cherry picked from commit ea56845744e815ed468dfbdd835110254c3be997) Co-authored-by: 180909 --- Doc/library/codecs.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 1a1ce9237b01..9e2eb6347928 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ there's the so called BOM ("Byte Order Mark"). This is the Unicode character ``U+FEFF``. This character can be prepended to every ``UTF-16`` or ``UTF-32`` byte sequence. The byte swapped version of this character (``0xFFFE``) is an illegal character that may not appear in a Unicode text. So when the -first character in an ``UTF-16`` or ``UTF-32`` byte sequence +first character in a ``UTF-16`` or ``UTF-32`` byte sequence appears to be a ``U+FFFE`` the bytes have to be swapped on decoding. Unfortunately the character ``U+FEFF`` had a second purpose as a ``ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE``: a character that has no width and doesn't allow -- 2.47.3