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 b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "ignore") 'abc' +(In this code example, the Unicode replacement character has been replaced by +a question mark because it may not be displayed on some systems.)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