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diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 9ea689acd8b..949288b7c6d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ it's a device to determine the storage layout of the encoded bytes, and vanishes once the byte sequence has been decoded into a string; as a ``ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE`` it's a normal character that will be decoded like any other. -There's another encoding that is able to encoding the full range of Unicode +There's another encoding that is able to encode the full range of Unicode characters: UTF-8. UTF-8 is an 8-bit encoding, which means there are no issues with byte order in UTF-8. Each byte in a UTF-8 byte sequence consists of two parts: marker bits (the most significant bits) and payload bits. The marker bits |