diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index 77e0578f5d89b6..17c0fb4a51eb4f 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: