Clarify text encoding used to enable UTF-8 mode

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

No file or test is named in the issue. Start by locating the CPython documentation describing UTF-8 mode and inspect the current encoding wording. The work is done when the documentation clearly identifies which text encoding enables UTF-8 mode.

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Description

docs topic-unicode type-feature
BPO 34914
Nosy @ncoghlan, @vstinner, @ericsnowcurrently

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2018-10-06.08:06:57.213>
labels = ['3.8', 'type-feature', '3.7', 'docs']
title = 'Clarify text encoding used to enable UTF-8 mode'
updated_at = <Date 2018-10-18.08:06:11.359>
user = 'https://github.com/ncoghlan'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2018-10-18.08:06:11.359>
actor = 'ncoghlan'
assignee = 'docs@python'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation']
creation = <Date 2018-10-06.08:06:57.213>
creator = 'ncoghlan'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 34914
keywords = []
message_count = 4.0
messages = ['327236', '327497', '327498', '327944']
nosy_count = 4.0
nosy_names = ['ncoghlan', 'vstinner', 'docs@python', 'eric.snow']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'low'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue34914'
versions = ['Python 3.7', 'Python 3.8']

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