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help: fix a py3 error interpolating Set into b'%s'

I can't reproduce it, but a coworker hit this with `hg help -v` with 6.2.3:

    ...
      File "mercurial\help.pyc", line 865, in helplist
    TypeError: %b requires a bytes-like object, or an object that implements __bytes__, not 'set'

I can confirm that the original expression fails in `hg debugshell`, and the new
one works.  The second instance was found by searching for "%s", but PyCharm
detects a lot of variables as Any type, so I have no idea if there are other
lurking problems.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.