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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2015-01-25 20:56:57 (GMT)
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Issue #22286: The "backslashreplace" error handlers now works with
decoding and translating.
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@@ -973,9 +973,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
Characters not supported by the encoding are replaced with the
appropriate XML character reference ``&#nnn;``.
- * ``'backslashreplace'`` (also only supported when writing)
- replaces unsupported characters with Python's backslashed escape
- sequences.
+ * ``'backslashreplace'`` replaces malformed data by Python's backslashed
+ escape sequences.
* ``'namereplace'`` (also only supported when writing)
replaces unsupported characters with ``\N{...}`` escape sequences.