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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.
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The :meth:`strptime` method can parse years in the full [1, 9999] range, but