From bd9cbf0064c6daa37ac7d6151205acf2f7b24e1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Wolever Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 17:42:14 -0400 Subject: Clarify that strftime's encoding is based on locale --- Doc/library/datetime.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index ad1e047..e33f3f0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -1718,10 +1718,10 @@ 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, by default, using UTF-8, but this may - vary based on the locale; for example, the ``ja_JP`` locale contains UTF-8 - encoded Japanese characters, but ``ja_JP.SJIS`` contains Shift JIS encoded - Japanese characters). + contain Unicode characters encoded using the locale's default encoding (for + example, if the current locale is ``js_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). (2) When used with the :meth:`strptime` method, the ``%p`` directive only affects -- cgit v0.12