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gh-107607: Update comment about utf-8 BOM being ignored #107858

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GH-107607: Correct encoding name in docs
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Update Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
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Expand Up @@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ which is recognized by Bram Moolenaar's VIM.

If no encoding declaration is found, the default encoding is UTF-8. In
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`).
(``b'\xef\xbb\xbf'``), the declared file encoding is UTF-8 with BOM (this is supported,
among others, by Microsoft's :program:`Notepad`).

If an encoding is declared, the encoding name must be recognized by Python
(see :ref:`standard-encodings`). The
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