From f2f2ed9fd550e5fa3d533f9df3932914f46e4ced Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Tuininga <anthony.tuininga@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:21:32 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation for querying corrupt data.

---
 doc/src/user_guide/sql_execution.rst | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/user_guide/sql_execution.rst b/doc/src/user_guide/sql_execution.rst
index 1cd0207..0a25e8f 100644
--- a/doc/src/user_guide/sql_execution.rst
+++ b/doc/src/user_guide/sql_execution.rst
@@ -744,15 +744,10 @@ Querying Corrupt Data
 If queries fail with the error "codec can't decode byte" when you select data,
 then:
 
-* Check your :ref:`character set <globalization>` is correct.  Review the
+* Check if your :ref:`character set <globalization>` is correct.  Review the
   :ref:`database character sets <findingcharset>`.  Check with
-  :ref:`fetching-raw-data`. Consider using UTF-8, if this is appropriate:
-
-    .. code-block:: python
-
-        connection = oracledb.connect(user="hr", password=userpwd,
-                                       dsn="dbhost.example.com/orclpdb",
-                                       encoding="UTF-8", nencoding="UTF-8")
+  :ref:`fetching-raw-data`. Note that the encoding used for all character
+  data in python-oracledb is "UTF-8".
 
 * Check for corrupt data in the database.