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: 2025-09-18
---
 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 d5415f4..e3f1ac1 100644
--- a/docutils/frontend.py
+++ b/docutils/frontend.py
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ class OptionParser(optparse.OptionParser, docutils.SettingsSpec):
          (SUPPRESS_HELP, ['--output-encoding-error-handler'],
           {'default': 'strict', 'validator': validate_encoding_error_handler}),
          ('Specify text encoding and optionally the error handler'
-          f' for error output.  Default: {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 e0235ae..7723c80 100644
--- a/test/data/help/docutils.rst
+++ b/test/data/help/docutils.rst
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ General Docutils Options
                         handler for output.  Default: utf-8.
 --error-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -e <name[:handler]>
                         Specify text encoding and optionally the error handler
-                        for error output.  Default: utf-8.
+                        for error output.  Default: system encoding.
 --language=<tag>, -l <tag>
                         Specify the language (as BCP 47 language tag).
                         Default: en.
diff --git a/test/data/help/rst2html.rst b/test/data/help/rst2html.rst
index 25b5bf5..aacbd92 100644
--- a/test/data/help/rst2html.rst
+++ b/test/data/help/rst2html.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ General Docutils Options
                         handler for output.  Default: utf-8.
 --error-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -e <name[:handler]>
                         Specify text encoding and optionally the error handler
-                        for error output.  Default: utf-8.
+                        for error output.  Default: system encoding.
 --language=<tag>, -l <tag>
                         Specify the language (as BCP 47 language tag).
                         Default: en.
diff --git a/test/data/help/rst2latex.rst b/test/data/help/rst2latex.rst
index 947ea67..c73d6c1 100644
--- a/test/data/help/rst2latex.rst
+++ b/test/data/help/rst2latex.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ General Docutils Options
                         handler for output.  Default: utf-8.
 --error-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -e <name[:handler]>
                         Specify text encoding and optionally the error handler
-                        for error output.  Default: utf-8.
+                        for error output.  Default: system encoding.
 --language=<tag>, -l <tag>
                         Specify the language (as BCP 47 language tag).
                         Default: en.