"If a byte sequence can be decoded as a surrogate character and
*errors* is not ``"strict"``, then the byte sequence is escaped using
the ``"surrogateescape"`` error handler instead of being decoded."

I don't understand this sentence but it sounds to be wrong. The
"surrogateescape" is only used if errors="surrogateescape"...

If errors is set and is different to "strict" and "surrogateescape",
an error is raised.

2012/11/28 Andrew Svetlov <report@bugs.python.org>:
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> Andrew Svetlov added the comment:
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> Really I don't know what's better. Victor, what do you think?
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