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diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 0d38253..e80fc3a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -78,7 +78,11 @@ It defines the following functions: reference (for encoding only) * ``'backslashreplace'``: replace with backslashed escape sequences (for encoding only) - * ``'surrogateescape'``: replace with surrogate U+DCxx, see :pep:`383` + * ``'surrogateescape'``: on decoding, replace with code points in the Unicode + Private Use Area ranging from U+DC80 to U+DCFF. These private code + points will then be turned back into the same bytes when the + ``surrogateescape`` error handler is used when encoding the data. + (See :pep:`383` for more.) as well as any other error handling name defined via :func:`register_error`. |