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gh-91156: Document how TextIOWrapper interacts with UTF-8 mode (GH-13… 
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Document how TextIOWrapper interacts with UTF-8 mode
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Co-authored-by: Malcolm Smith <smith@chaquo.com>
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:class:`TextIOBase`.

*encoding* gives the name of the encoding that the stream will be decoded or
encoded with. It defaults to :func:`locale.getencoding`.
encoded with. In :ref:`UTF-8 Mode <utf8-mode>`, this defaults to UTF-8.
Otherwise, it defaults to :func:`locale.getencoding`.
``encoding="locale"`` can be used to specify the current locale's encoding
explicitly. See :ref:`io-text-encoding` for more information.

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