diff -r 62c2b76df993 Doc/library/getpass.rst
--- a/Doc/library/getpass.rst	Mon Apr 14 07:53:33 2014 -0400
+++ b/Doc/library/getpass.rst	Mon Apr 14 19:18:03 2014 +0530
@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@
 .. function:: getpass(prompt='Password: ', stream=None)
 
    Prompt the user for a password without echoing.  The user is prompted using
-   the string *prompt*, which defaults to ``'Password: '``.  On Unix, the prompt
-   is written to the file-like object *stream*.  *stream* defaults to the
-   controlling terminal (:file:`/dev/tty`) or if that is unavailable to
-   ``sys.stderr`` (this argument is ignored on Windows).
+   the string *prompt*, which defaults to ``'Password: '``.  On Unix, the
+   prompt is written to the file-like object *stream* using the replace error
+   handler.  *stream* defaults to the controlling terminal (:file:`/dev/tty`)
+   or if that is unavailable to ``sys.stderr`` (this argument is ignored on
+   Windows).
 
    If echo free input is unavailable getpass() falls back to printing
    a warning message to *stream* and reading from ``sys.stdin`` and
diff -r 62c2b76df993 Lib/getpass.py
--- a/Lib/getpass.py	Mon Apr 14 07:53:33 2014 -0400
+++ b/Lib/getpass.py	Mon Apr 14 19:18:03 2014 +0530
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@
         try:
             stream.write(prompt)
         except UnicodeEncodeError:
+            # We are using replace error handler to get as much as possible.
             prompt = prompt.encode(stream.encoding, 'replace')
             prompt = prompt.decode(stream.encoding)
             stream.write(prompt)