From 0cc45baa3d160810f371ef7b69f4b56437bde790 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 02:05:35 +0200
Subject: Issue #21398: Fix an unicode error in the pydoc pager when the
 documentation contains characters not encodable to the stdout encoding.

---
 Lib/pydoc.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Lib/pydoc.py')

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 5f128320d2..42f48e1d63 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1404,6 +1404,9 @@ class _PlainTextDoc(TextDoc):
 def pager(text):
     """The first time this is called, determine what kind of pager to use."""
     global pager
+    # Escape non-encodable characters to avoid encoding errors later
+    encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+    text = text.encode(encoding, 'backslashreplace').decode(encoding)
     pager = getpager()
     pager(text)
 
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