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diff --git a/Doc/library/curses.rst b/Doc/library/curses.rst index 37e822c0e2..a7cc495277 100644 --- a/Doc/library/curses.rst +++ b/Doc/library/curses.rst @@ -27,20 +27,6 @@ Linux and the BSD variants of Unix. Whenever the documentation mentions a *character string* it can be specified as a Unicode string or a byte string. -.. note:: - - Since version 5.4, the ncurses library decides how to interpret non-ASCII data - using the ``nl_langinfo`` function. That means that you have to call - :func:`locale.setlocale` in the application and encode Unicode strings - using one of the system's available encodings. This example uses the - system's default encoding:: - - import locale - locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') - code = locale.getpreferredencoding() - - Then use *code* as the encoding for :meth:`str.encode` calls. - .. seealso:: Module :mod:`curses.ascii` @@ -923,8 +909,8 @@ the following methods and attributes: Encoding used to encode method arguments (Unicode strings and characters). The encoding attribute is inherited from the parent window when a subwindow - is created, for example with :meth:`window.subwin`. By default, the locale - encoding is used (see :func:`locale.getpreferredencoding`). + is created, for example with :meth:`window.subwin`. + By default, current locale encoding is used (see :func:`locale.getencoding`). .. versionadded:: 3.3 |