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Issue #22286: The "backslashreplace" error handlers now works with

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decoding and translating.
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Serhiy Storchaka 2015-01-25 22:56:57 +02:00
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@ -280,8 +280,9 @@ and optionally an *errors* argument.
The *errors* argument specifies the response when the input string can't be
converted according to the encoding's rules. Legal values for this argument are
``'strict'`` (raise a :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError` exception), ``'replace'`` (use
``U+FFFD``, ``REPLACEMENT CHARACTER``), or ``'ignore'`` (just leave the
character out of the Unicode result).
``U+FFFD``, ``REPLACEMENT CHARACTER``), ``'ignore'`` (just leave the
character out of the Unicode result), or ``'backslashreplace'`` (inserts a
``\xNN`` escape sequence).
The following examples show the differences::
>>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "strict") #doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
@ -291,6 +292,8 @@ The following examples show the differences::
invalid start byte
>>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "replace")
'\ufffdabc'
>>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "backslashreplace")
'\\x80abc'
>>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "ignore")
'abc'