bpo-44522: Fix inaccurate information in open() function (GH-27650)
- Use "Low surrogate code units" instead of "Unicode Private Use Area"
(cherry picked from commit b05e9b63fcfcd4bd7a6434fa9f9a7028d12f91c4)
Co-authored-by: meowmeowmeowcat <meowmeowcat1211@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index f99ea88..652e30c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1208,9 +1208,9 @@
* ``'replace'`` causes a replacement marker (such as ``'?'``) to be inserted
where there is malformed data.
- * ``'surrogateescape'`` will represent any incorrect bytes as code
- points in the Unicode Private Use Area ranging from U+DC80 to
- U+DCFF. These private code points will then be turned back into
+ * ``'surrogateescape'`` will represent any incorrect bytes as low
+ surrogate code units ranging from U+DC80 to U+DCFF.
+ These surrogate code units will then be turned back into
the same bytes when the ``surrogateescape`` error handler is used
when writing data. This is useful for processing files in an
unknown encoding.