| ``'backslashreplace'`` | Replace with backslashed escape sequences |
| | (only for encoding). |
+-------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
-| ``'surrogateescape'`` | Replace byte with surrogate U+DCxx. |
+| ``'surrogateescape'`` | Replace byte with surrogate U+DCxx, as defined|
+| | in :pep:`383`. |
+-------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
In addition, the following error handlers are specific to a single codec: