[3.14] gh-83926: BlockingIOError characters_written is byte count (GH-141215) (#142816)

gh-83926: BlockingIOError characters_written is byte count (GH-141215)
(cherry picked from commit e12c744)

Co-authored-by: Cody Maloney <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Doc/library/exceptions.rst

@@ -735,8 +735,8 @@ depending on the system error code.
 
    .. attribute:: characters_written
 
-      An integer containing the number of characters written to the stream
-      before it blocked.  This attribute is available when using the
+      An integer containing the number of **bytes** written to the stream
+      before it blocked. This attribute is available when using the
       buffered I/O classes from the :mod:`io` module.
 
 .. exception:: ChildProcessError