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

miss-islington · terryjreedy · web-flow · commit f4e280d8c546 · 2022-04-02T17:40:31.000-07:00
(cherry picked from commit 01be5d6) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
diff --git 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:
 
