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Do not put a raw REPLACEMENT CHARACTER in the document.

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Georg Brandl 2010-11-19 22:09:04 +00:00
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@ -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")
'<EFBFBD>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(In this code example, the Unicode replacement character has been replaced by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