refactor: Move terminal_safe() to sphinx.util.console

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/sphinx/util/pycompat.py b/sphinx/util/pycompat.py
index 5f02bd979..51697432e 100644
--- a/sphinx/util/pycompat.py
+++ b/sphinx/util/pycompat.py
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ import warnings
 from sphinx.deprecation import RemovedInSphinx40Warning, deprecated_alias
 from sphinx.locale import __
 from sphinx.util import logging
+from sphinx.util.console import terminal_safe
+
 
 if False:
     # For type annotation
@@ -36,12 +38,6 @@ NoneType = type(None)
 sys_encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding()
 
 
-# terminal_safe(): safely encode a string for printing to the terminal
-def terminal_safe(s):
-    # type: (str) -> str
-    return s.encode('ascii', 'backslashreplace').decode('ascii')
-
-
 # convert_with_2to3():
 # support for running 2to3 over config files
 def convert_with_2to3(filepath):
@@ -102,6 +98,7 @@ deprecated_alias('sphinx.util.pycompat',
                      'TextIOWrapper': io.TextIOWrapper,
                      'htmlescape': html.escape,
                      'indent': textwrap.indent,
+                     'terminal_safe': terminal_safe,
                      'u': '',
                  },
                  RemovedInSphinx40Warning)