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bitdancer · bitdancer · commit c1eb92bb1a7e · 2009-09-21T14:39:26.000Z
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r74740 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-11 16:42:29 -0400 (Fri, 11 Sep 2009) | 1 line kill reference to default encoding #6889 ........
diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
@@ -150,9 +150,8 @@ Generally people don't use this encoding, instead choosing other encodings that
 are more efficient and convenient.
 
 Encodings don't have to handle every possible Unicode character, and most
-encodings don't.  For example, Python's default encoding is the 'UTF-8'
-encoding.  The rules for converting a Unicode string into the ASCII encoding are
-simple; for each code point:
+encodings don't.  The rules for converting a Unicode string into the ASCII
+encoding, for example, are simple; for each code point:
 
 1. If the code point is < 128, each byte is the same as the value of the code
    point.
