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diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst index 50bca5a..aac2373 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst @@ -325,8 +325,9 @@ The *errors* parameter is the same as the parameter of the :meth:`~bytes.decode` method but supports a few more possible handlers. As well as ``'strict'``, ``'ignore'``, and ``'replace'`` (which in this case inserts a question mark instead of the unencodable character), there is -also ``'xmlcharrefreplace'`` (inserts an XML character reference) and -``backslashreplace`` (inserts a ``\uNNNN`` escape sequence). +also ``'xmlcharrefreplace'`` (inserts an XML character reference), +``backslashreplace`` (inserts a ``\uNNNN`` escape sequence) and +``namereplace`` (inserts a ``\N{...}`` escape sequence). The following example shows the different results:: @@ -346,6 +347,8 @@ The following example shows the different results:: b'ꀀabcd޴' >>> u.encode('ascii', 'backslashreplace') b'\\ua000abcd\\u07b4' + >>> u.encode('ascii', 'namereplace') + b'\\N{YI SYLLABLE IT}abcd\\u07b4' The low-level routines for registering and accessing the available encodings are found in the :mod:`codecs` module. Implementing new |