GH-100766: Note that locale.LC_MESSAGES is not universal (GH-100768)

Co-authored-by: Tzu-ping Chung <uranusjr@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/locale.rst b/Doc/library/locale.rst
index cc1f5b427accbdf05a28764a55c57db4e3b9785b..61ca31623108e6519939947a20b9cbefd5b37f91 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/locale.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/locale.rst
@@ -484,6 +484,9 @@ The :mod:`locale` module defines the following exception and functions:
    system, like those returned by :func:`os.strerror` might be affected by this
    category.
 
+   This value may not be available on operating systems not conforming to the
+   POSIX standard, most notably Windows.
+
 
 .. data:: LC_NUMERIC