\var{encoding} defaults to the default string encoding. \var{errors}
may be given to set a different error handling scheme. The default is
\code{'strict'}, meaning that encoding errors raise
-\exception{ValueError}. Other possible values are \code{'ignore'} and
-\code{'replace'}.
+\exception{UnicodeError}. Other possible values are \code{'ignore'},
+\code{'replace'} and any other name registered via
+\function{codecs.register_error}.
\versionadded{2.2}
+\versionchanged[Support for other error handling schemes added]{2.3}
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[string]{encode}{\optional{encoding\optional{,errors}}}
default string encoding. \var{errors} may be given to set a different
error handling scheme. The default for \var{errors} is
\code{'strict'}, meaning that encoding errors raise a
-\exception{ValueError}. Other possible values are \code{'ignore'} and
-\code{'replace'}. For a list of possible encodings, see
-section~\ref{standard-encodings}.
+\exception{UnicodeError}. Other possible values are \code{'ignore'},
+\code{'replace'}, \code{'xmlcharrefreplace'}, \code{'backslashreplace'}
+and any other name registered via \function{codecs.register_error}.
+For a list of possible encodings, see section~\ref{standard-encodings}.
\versionadded{2.0}
+\versionchanged[Support for \code{'xmlcharrefreplace'} and
+\code{'backslashreplace'} and other error handling schemes added]{2.3}
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[string]{endswith}{suffix\optional{, start\optional{, end}}}