From d2f74d342ed8f51c4e57215671903b4d4dff1669 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Grainger <tagrain@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:54:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix safe_str docstring

---
 src/_pytest/compat.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/_pytest/compat.py b/src/_pytest/compat.py
index 7668c3a94c..df661bfff0 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/compat.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/compat.py
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ def safe_str(v):
 else:
 
     def safe_str(v):
-        """returns v as string, converting to ascii if necessary"""
+        """returns v as string, converting to utf-8 if necessary"""
         try:
             return str(v)
         except UnicodeError: