diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index ab8fed691e8..7889dd7d1c3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -2510,10 +2510,7 @@ 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