From 875565bbd602825fd24eab2978ea4a7f81cfd7cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 17:14:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] #1065986: add missing error handler in pydoc unicode fix.

---
 Lib/pydoc.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index e8b6c08bd3..160ad4acf7 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -209,7 +209,9 @@ else:
 def _binstr(obj):
     # Ensure that we have an encoded (binary) string representation of obj,
     # even if it is a unicode string.
-    return obj.encode(_encoding) if isinstance(obj, _unicode) else str(obj)
+    if isinstance(obj, _unicode):
+        return obj.encode(_encoding, 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+    return str(obj)
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------- module manipulation
 
-- 
2.50.1