From c216dd46c6db56f64b603513702126e2395ff937 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Terry Jan Reedy Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 20:22:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-45277: Fix typo in codecs doc encoding => encode --- Doc/library/codecs.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 9ea689acd8bbb3..949288b7c6d9b7 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