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diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 8ae9407..31f188a 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -2468,7 +2468,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(encode__doc__,
Encodes S using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults\n\
to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise\n\
-a ValueError. Other possible values are 'ignore' and 'replace'.");
+a UnicodeEncodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore', 'replace' and\n\
+'xmlcharrefreplace' as well as any other name registered with\n\
+codecs.register_error that is able to handle UnicodeEncodeErrors.");
static PyObject *
string_encode(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)
@@ -2487,7 +2489,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(decode__doc__,
Decodes S using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults\n\
to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise\n\
-a ValueError. Other possible values are 'ignore' and 'replace'.");
+a UnicodeDecodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore' and 'replace'\n\
+as well as any other name registerd with codecs.register_error that is\n\
+able to handle UnicodeDecodeErrors.");
static PyObject *
string_decode(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)