Which statement is true about encoding in Python?

In Python 3, ordinary strings (`str`) contain Unicode text by default, so you do not need to call `encode()` when declaring a string. Encoding is used when converting a string to a particular byte format, such as UTF-8, often for saving or sending data. Thus, the true statement is “In Python 3, strings are automatically encoded using Unicode,” though more precisely, Python 3 strings are Unicode text.

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