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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
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Expand Up @@ -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
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