[Python-checkins] Correct the documented default encoding (GH-18429)

Mon Feb 10 18:32:23 EST 2020

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/bf15d5b775c31e65584926998ff141edc75226d4
commit: bf15d5b775c31e65584926998ff141edc75226d4
branch: master
author: Eric Wieser <wieser.eric at gmail.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020年02月10日T15:32:18-08:00
summary:
Correct the documented default encoding (GH-18429)
>From the source for `PyUnicode_Decode`, the implementation is:
```
if (encoding == NULL) {
 return PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8Stateful(s, size, errors, NULL);
}
```
which is pretty clearly not defaulting to ASCII.
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I assume this needs neither a news entry nor bpo link.
files:
M Doc/c-api/unicode.rst

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
index 77f123cf1f2c0..96d77c4084132 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ have the same semantics as the ones of the built-in :func:`str` string object
 constructor.
 
 Setting encoding to ``NULL`` causes the default encoding to be used
-which is ASCII. The file system calls should use
+which is UTF-8. The file system calls should use
 :c:func:`PyUnicode_FSConverter` for encoding file names. This uses the
 variable :c:data:`Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding` internally. This
 variable should be treated as read-only: on some systems, it will be a
