diff --git a/Doc/library/curses.rst b/Doc/library/curses.rst
index 1201e8972de63c8..fe98d138145b46b 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`