diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/datetime.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index db3a652..121f73b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -2034,6 +2034,12 @@ calls the platform C library's :func:`strftime` function, and platform variations are common. To see the full set of format codes supported on your platform, consult the :manpage:`strftime(3)` documentation. +For the same reason, handling of format strings containing Unicode code points +that can't be represented in the charset of the current locale is also +platform-dependent. On some platforms such code points are preserved intact in +the output, while on others ``strftime`` may raise :exc:`UnicodeError` or return +an empty string instead. + The following is a list of all the format codes that the C standard (1989 version) requires, and these work on all platforms with a standard C implementation. Note that the 1999 version of the C standard added additional |