https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7f64ae30ddc22577ce4101ce0b6601b3548b036f commit: 7f64ae30ddc22577ce4101ce0b6601b3548b036f branch: main author: Sunghyun Kim <[email protected]> committer: terryjreedy <[email protected]> date: 2024-03-19T11:51:12-04:00 summary:
gh-107607: Update comment about utf-8 BOM being ignored (#107858) --------- Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <[email protected]> files: M Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index f0b3d0a7458cbe..41ea89fd234122 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -96,10 +96,9 @@ which is recognized also by GNU Emacs, and :: which is recognized by Bram Moolenaar's VIM. -If no encoding declaration is found, the default encoding is UTF-8. In -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 no encoding declaration is found, the default encoding is UTF-8. If the +implicit or explicit encoding of a file is UTF-8, an initial UTF-8 byte-order +mark (b'\xef\xbb\xbf') is ignored rather than being a syntax error. If an encoding is declared, the encoding name must be recognized by Python (see :ref:`standard-encodings`). The _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
