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@@ -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.