[Python-checkins] bpo-24563: Link encoding names to encoding declarations (GH-32274)

[miss-islington]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ce6af314ca8529d5ed0f307deb9c33029a69f4cb
commit: ce6af314ca8529d5ed0f307deb9c33029a69f4cb
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-04-02T17:40:55-07:00
summary:

bpo-24563: Link encoding names to encoding declarations (GH-32274)

(cherry picked from commit 01be5d6446abbdd95d0c18bd19a58a62b05568d8)

Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>

files:
M Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst

diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index 21ad3731a3246..d9e2cead958c9 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -101,12 +101,11 @@ addition, if the first bytes of the file are the UTF-8 byte-order mark
 (``b'\xef\xbb\xbf'``), the declared file encoding is UTF-8 (this is supported,
 among others, by Microsoft's :program:`notepad`).
 
-If an encoding is declared, the encoding name must be recognized by Python. The
+If an encoding is declared, the encoding name must be recognized by Python
+(see :ref:`standard-encodings`). The
 encoding is used for all lexical analysis, including string literals, comments
 and identifiers.
 
-.. XXX there should be a list of supported encodings.
-
 
 .. _explicit-joining: