Clarify that strftime's encoding is based on locale
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 @@
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).
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When used with the :meth:`strptime` method, the ``%p`` directive only affects