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gh-99032: datetime docs: Encoding is no longer relevant (#93365) 

This removes a section of the `strftime` and `strptime` documentation that refers to a bygone era when `strftime` would return an encoded byte string.

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Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <1377457+pganssle@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -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