From: Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 11:57:13 -0700
Subject: make the help message not depend on runtime encoding

This message goes into manpage, and we do not want the manpage to misleadingly
mention build-time locale there.

Bug: https://bugs.debian.org/791587
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2023-05-20
---
 docutils/frontend.py         | 2 +-
 test/data/help/docutils.rst  | 2 +-
 test/data/help/rst2html.rst  | 2 +-
 test/data/help/rst2latex.rst | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docutils/frontend.py b/docutils/frontend.py
index c8b4b23..f3cb230 100644
--- a/docutils/frontend.py
+++ b/docutils/frontend.py
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ class OptionParser(optparse.OptionParser, docutils.SettingsSpec):
           ['--output-encoding-error-handler'],
           {'default': 'strict', 'validator': validate_encoding_error_handler}),
          ('Specify text encoding and optionally error handler '
-          'for error output.  Default: %s.' % default_error_encoding,
+          'for error output.  Default: system encoding.',
           ['--error-encoding', '-e'],
           {'metavar': '<name[:handler]>', 'default': default_error_encoding,
            'validator': validate_encoding_and_error_handler}),
diff --git a/test/data/help/docutils.rst b/test/data/help/docutils.rst
index bdaf468..1b35365 100644
--- a/test/data/help/docutils.rst
+++ b/test/data/help/docutils.rst
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ General Docutils Options
                         "xmlcharrefreplace", "backslashreplace".
 --error-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -e <name[:handler]>
                         Specify text encoding and optionally error handler for
-                        error output.  Default: utf-8.
+                        error output.  Default: system encoding.
 --error-encoding-error-handler=ERROR_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER
                         Specify the error handler for unencodable characters
                         in error output.  Default: backslashreplace.
diff --git a/test/data/help/rst2html.rst b/test/data/help/rst2html.rst
index 18479e8..e148d53 100644
--- a/test/data/help/rst2html.rst
+++ b/test/data/help/rst2html.rst
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ General Docutils Options
                         "xmlcharrefreplace", "backslashreplace".
 --error-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -e <name[:handler]>
                         Specify text encoding and optionally error handler for
-                        error output.  Default: utf-8.
+                        error output.  Default: system encoding.
 --error-encoding-error-handler=ERROR_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER
                         Specify the error handler for unencodable characters
                         in error output.  Default: backslashreplace.
diff --git a/test/data/help/rst2latex.rst b/test/data/help/rst2latex.rst
index d0ede4c..383cd09 100644
--- a/test/data/help/rst2latex.rst
+++ b/test/data/help/rst2latex.rst
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ General Docutils Options
                         "xmlcharrefreplace", "backslashreplace".
 --error-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -e <name[:handler]>
                         Specify text encoding and optionally error handler for
-                        error output.  Default: utf-8.
+                        error output.  Default: system encoding.
 --error-encoding-error-handler=ERROR_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER
                         Specify the error handler for unencodable characters
                         in error output.  Default: backslashreplace.
