From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:09:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Do not put a raw REPLACEMENT CHARACTER in the document.
X-Git-Tag: v3.2b1~330
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c8c60c22845177f419e4de7305102310e336b1f0;p=python

Do not put a raw REPLACEMENT CHARACTER in the document.
---

diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
index b809182bb1..77fcd26f75 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
@@ -263,10 +263,13 @@ Unicode result).  The following examples show the differences::
     UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0:
                         unexpected code byte
     >>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "replace")
-    '�abc'
+    '?abc'
     >>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "ignore")
     'abc'
 
+(In this code example, the Unicode replacement character has been replaced by
+a question mark because it may not be displayed on some systems.)
+
 Encodings are specified as strings containing the encoding's name.  Python 3.2
 comes with roughly 100 different encodings; see the Python Library Reference at
 :ref:`standard-encodings` for a list.  Some encodings have multiple names; for