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diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst index 5ea311e..ee31a9c 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst @@ -280,8 +280,9 @@ and optionally an *errors* argument. The *errors* argument specifies the response when the input string can't be converted according to the encoding's rules. Legal values for this argument are ``'strict'`` (raise a :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError` exception), ``'replace'`` (use -``U+FFFD``, ``REPLACEMENT CHARACTER``), or ``'ignore'`` (just leave the -character out of the Unicode result). +``U+FFFD``, ``REPLACEMENT CHARACTER``), ``'ignore'`` (just leave the +character out of the Unicode result), or ``'backslashreplace'`` (inserts a +``\xNN`` escape sequence). The following examples show the differences:: >>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "strict") #doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE @@ -291,6 +292,8 @@ The following examples show the differences:: invalid start byte >>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "replace") '\ufffdabc' + >>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "backslashreplace") + '\\x80abc' >>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "ignore") 'abc' |