From 037ef8d6d9cc8225d6db0305cee2d8d0ee5bee74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 07:39:31 -0700 Subject: bpo-44522: Fix inaccurate information in open() function (GH-27650) (GH-27682) - Use "Low surrogate code units" instead of "Unicode Private Use Area" (cherry picked from commit b05e9b63fcfcd4bd7a6434fa9f9a7028d12f91c4) Co-authored-by: meowmeowmeowcat --- Doc/library/functions.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 784bb62..c5c1c16 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1150,9 +1150,9 @@ 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. -- cgit v0.12