Issue #21398: Fix an unicode error in the pydoc pager when the documentation

contains characters not encodable to the stdout encoding.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 5f12832..42f48e1 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1404,6 +1404,9 @@ class _PlainTextDoc(TextDoc):
 def pager(text):
     """The first time this is called, determine what kind of pager to use."""
     global pager
+    # Escape non-encodable characters to avoid encoding errors later
+    encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+    text = text.encode(encoding, 'backslashreplace').decode(encoding)
     pager = getpager()
     pager(text)