Issue #16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode bytes decoder.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode bytes decoder.
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 - Issue #14850: Now a charmap decoder treats U+FFFE as "undefined mapping"
   in any mapping, not only in a string.