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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index f99ea88..652e30c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1208,9 +1208,9 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. * ``'replace'`` causes a replacement marker (such as ``'?'``) to be inserted where there is malformed data. - * ``'surrogateescape'`` will represent any incorrect bytes as 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 + * ``'surrogateescape'`` will represent any incorrect bytes as low + surrogate code units ranging from U+DC80 to U+DCFF. + These surrogate code units will then be turned back into the same bytes when the ``surrogateescape`` error handler is used when writing data. This is useful for processing files in an unknown encoding. |