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diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst index 21ae111088..561ce29f52 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst @@ -410,9 +410,9 @@ either the first or second line of the source file:: The syntax is inspired by Emacs's notation for specifying variables local to a file. Emacs supports many different variables, but Python only supports -'coding'. The ``-*-`` symbols indicate that the comment is special; within -them, you must supply the name ``coding`` and the name of your chosen encoding, -separated by ``':'``. +'coding'. The ``-*-`` symbols indicate to Emacs that the comment is special; +they have no significance to Python but are a convention. Python looks for +``coding: name`` or ``coding=name`` in the comment. If you don't include such a comment, the default encoding used will be ASCII. Versions of Python before 2.4 were Euro-centric and assumed Latin-1 as a default |