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diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index c3e7407..21e74ca 100644
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@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ It defines the following functions:
*incrementalencoder* and *incrementaldecoder*: These have to be factory
functions providing the following interface:
- ``factory(errors='strict')``
+ ``factory(errors='strict')``
The factory functions must return objects providing the interfaces defined by
the base classes :class:`IncrementalEncoder` and :class:`IncrementalDecoder`,
@@ -62,21 +62,25 @@ It defines the following functions:
*streamreader* and *streamwriter*: These have to be factory functions providing
the following interface:
- ``factory(stream, errors='strict')``
+ ``factory(stream, errors='strict')``
The factory functions must return objects providing the interfaces defined by
the base classes :class:`StreamWriter` and :class:`StreamReader`, respectively.
Stream codecs can maintain state.
- Possible values for errors are ``'strict'`` (raise an exception in case of an
- encoding error), ``'replace'`` (replace malformed data with a suitable
- replacement marker, such as ``'?'``), ``'ignore'`` (ignore malformed data and
- continue without further notice), ``'xmlcharrefreplace'`` (replace with the
- appropriate XML character reference (for encoding only)),
- ``'backslashreplace'`` (replace with backslashed escape sequences (for
- encoding only)), ``'surrogateescape'`` (replace with surrogate U+DCxx, see
- :pep:`383`) as well as any other error handling name defined via
- :func:`register_error`.
+ Possible values for errors are
+
+ * ``'strict'``: raise an exception in case of an encoding error
+ * ``'replace'``: replace malformed data with a suitable replacement marker,
+ such as ``'?'`` or ``'\ufffd'``
+ * ``'ignore'``: ignore malformed data and continue without further notice
+ * ``'xmlcharrefreplace'``: replace with the appropriate XML character
+ reference (for encoding only)
+ * ``'backslashreplace'``: replace with backslashed escape sequences (for
+ encoding only
+ * ``'surrogateescape'``: replace with surrogate U+DCxx, see :pep:`383`
+
+ as well as any other error handling name defined via :func:`register_error`.
In case a search function cannot find a given encoding, it should return
``None``.
@@ -173,27 +177,33 @@ functions which use :func:`lookup` for the codec lookup:
.. function:: strict_errors(exception)
- Implements the ``strict`` error handling.
+ Implements the ``strict`` error handling: each encoding or decoding error
+ raises a :exc:`UnicodeError`.
.. function:: replace_errors(exception)
- Implements the ``replace`` error handling.
+ Implements the ``replace`` error handling: malformed data is replaced with a
+ suitable replacement character such as ``'?'`` in bytestrings and
+ ``'\ufffd'`` in Unicode strings.
.. function:: ignore_errors(exception)
- Implements the ``ignore`` error handling.
+ Implements the ``ignore`` error handling: malformed data is ignored and
+ encoding or decoding is continued without further notice.
.. function:: xmlcharrefreplace_errors(exception)
- Implements the ``xmlcharrefreplace`` error handling.
+ Implements the ``xmlcharrefreplace`` error handling (for encoding only): the
+ unencodable character is replaced by an appropriate XML character reference.
.. function:: backslashreplace_errors(exception)
- Implements the ``backslashreplace`` error handling.
+ Implements the ``backslashreplace`` error handling (for encoding only): the
+ unencodable character is replaced by a backslashed escape sequence.
To simplify working with encoded files or stream, the module also defines these
utility functions: