«Python’s default encoding is the ‘ascii’ encoding.»

[florentx]

BPO	6889
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @benjaminp, @florentx

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[florentx]

In the Python «Unicode HOWTO», we still read the statement:

«For example, Python's default encoding is the 'ascii'
encoding.»

Here:
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/py3k/Doc/howto/unicode.rst?revision=72294&view=markup

[benjaminp]

Fixed in r74740.