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Describe 'surrogateescape' in the documentation.

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Also, improve some docstring descriptions of the 'errors' parameter.

Closes #14015.
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@ -78,7 +78,11 @@ It defines the following functions:
reference (for encoding only)
* ``'backslashreplace'``: replace with backslashed escape sequences (for
encoding only)
* ``'surrogateescape'``: replace with surrogate U+DCxx, see :pep:`383`
* ``'surrogateescape'``: on decoding, replace with 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 the same bytes when the
``surrogateescape`` error handler is used when encoding the data.
(See :pep:`383` for more.)
as well as any other error handling name defined via :func:`register_error`.