Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Pydoc uses the backslashreplace error handler for characters not encodable with
the output encoding (see issue21398 and issue23374).
$ LC_ALL=uk_UA.koi8-u ./python -c "help('async')"
[...]
[2] A string literal appearing as the first statement in the
function body is transformed into the function\u2019s "__doc__"
attribute and therefore the function\u2019s *docstring*.
[3] A string literal appearing as the first statement in the class
body is transformed into the namespace\u2019s "__doc__" item and
therefore the class\u2019s *docstring*.
It would be better to replace non-ASCII quotation marks and dashes with
corresponding ASCII quotation marks and hyphen-minus if they cannot be encoded.
It may be a part of more general feature for transliterating non-ASCII
characters to ASCII.
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