[3.11] gh-99032: datetime docs: Encoding is no longer relevant (GH-93365) (#103788)

miss-islington · wjandrea · pganssle · web-flow · commit 9fbb614c4ed0 · 2023-04-28T20:09:55.000-07:00
This removes a section of the `strftime` and `strptime` documentation that refers to a bygone era when `strftime` would return an encoded byte string. --------- (cherry picked from commit 2aa22f7) Co-authored-by: William Andrea <william.j.andrea@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <1377457+pganssle@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -2502,10 +2502,7 @@ Notes:
    Because the format depends on the current locale, care should be taken when
    making assumptions about the output value. Field orderings will vary (for
    example, "month/day/year" versus "day/month/year"), and the output may
-   contain Unicode characters encoded using the locale's default encoding (for
-   example, if the current locale is ``ja_JP``, the default encoding could be
-   any one of ``eucJP``, ``SJIS``, or ``utf-8``; use :meth:`locale.getlocale`
-   to determine the current locale's encoding).
+   contain non-ASCII characters.
 
 (2)
    The :meth:`strptime` method can parse years in the full [1, 9999] range, but
