They only ignore the first byte of an invalid byte sequence.

For example, b'\xff\n'.decode('gb2312', 'replace') gives '\ufffd\n' instead of
'\ufffd'.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r81032 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-09 17:52:27 +0200 (dim., 09 mai 2010) | 9 lines

  Recorded merge of revisions 81029 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r81029 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-09 16:46:46 +0200 (dim., 09 mai 2010) | 3 lines

    Untabify C files. Will watch buildbots.
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  r81029 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-09 16:46:46 +0200 (dim., 09 mai 2010) | 3 lines

  Untabify C files. Will watch buildbots.
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Merged revisions 60481,60485,60489-60492,60494-60496,60498-60499,60501-60503,60505-60506,60508-60509,60523-60524,60532,60543,60545,60547-60548,60552,60554,60556-60559,60561-60562,60569,60571-60572,60574,60576-60583,60585-60586,60589,60591,60594-60595,60597-60598,60600-60601,60606-60612,60615,60617-60678 via svnmerge from
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  r60618 | walter.doerwald | 2008-02-06 15:31:55 +0100 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) | 6 lines

  Remove month parameter from Calendar.yeardatescalendar(),
  Calendar.yeardays2calendar() and Calendar.yeardayscalendar() as the methods
  don't have such a parameter. Fixes issue #2017.

  Rewrap content to 80 chars.
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  r60622 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-06 20:28:49 +0100 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) | 4 lines


  Fixes issue 1959. Converted tests to unittest.
  Thanks Giampaolo Rodola.
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  r60626 | thomas.heller | 2008-02-06 21:29:17 +0100 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Fixed refcounts and error handling.

  Should not be merged to py3k branch.
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  r60630 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-06 23:10:50 +0100 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) | 4 lines

  Issue 1979: Make Decimal comparisons (other than !=, ==) involving NaN
  raise InvalidOperation (and return False if InvalidOperation is trapped).
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  r60632 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-06 23:25:16 +0100 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove incorrect usage of :const: in documentation.
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  r60634 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-07 00:45:51 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Revert accidental changes to test_queue in r60605.
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  r60636 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 01:54:20 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2025:  Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() to follow the ABC in collections.Sequence.
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  r60637 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-07 02:14:23 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix broken link in decimal documentation.
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  r60638 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-07 02:42:06 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  IEEE 754 should be IEEE 854;  give precise reference for
  comparisons involving NaNs.
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  r60639 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 03:12:52 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Return ints instead of longs for tuple.count() and tuple.index().
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  r60640 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 04:10:33 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Merge 60627.
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  r60641 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 04:25:46 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Merge r60628, r60631, and r60633.  Register UserList and UserString will the appropriate ABCs.
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  r60642 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-07 08:47:31 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Cast a struct to a void pointer so as to do a type-safe pointer comparison
  (mistmatch found by clang).
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  r60643 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-07 09:04:07 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove unnecessary curly braces around an int literal.
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  r60644 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-07 12:43:47 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Update URL
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  r60645 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-07 17:16:29 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 4 lines


  Fixes issue 2026.  Tests converted to unittest.  Thanks
  Giampaolo Rodola.
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  r60646 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-07 18:15:30 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Added some statistics code to dict and list object code. I wanted to test how a larger freelist affects the reusage of freed objects. Contrary to my gut feelings 80 objects is more than fine for small apps. I haven't profiled a large app yet.
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  r60648 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-07 20:06:52 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 6 lines


  Fixes Issue 1401. When redirected, a possible POST get converted
  to GET, so it loses its payload. So, it also must lose the
  headers related to the payload (if it has no content any more,
  it shouldn't indicate content length and type).
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  r60649 | walter.doerwald | 2008-02-07 20:30:22 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Clarify that the output of TextCalendar.formatmonth() and
  TextCalendar.formatyear() for custom instances won't be influenced by calls
  to the module global setfirstweekday() function. Fixes #2018.
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  r60651 | walter.doerwald | 2008-02-07 20:48:34 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix documentation for Calendar.iterweekdays(): firstweekday is a property.
  Fixes second part of #2018.
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  r60653 | walter.doerwald | 2008-02-07 20:57:32 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in docstring for Calendar.itermonthdays().
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  r60655 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 21:04:37 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  The float conversion recipe is simpler in Py2.6
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  r60657 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 21:10:49 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Fix typo
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  r60660 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-07 23:27:10 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Make sure a switch statement does not have repetitive case statements.
  Error found through LLVM post-2.1 svn.
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  r60661 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-08 01:11:31 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Deallocate content of the dict free list on interpreter shutdown
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  r60662 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-08 01:14:34 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Use prefix decrement
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  r60663 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-02-08 01:56:02 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 5 lines

  issue 2045: Infinite recursion when printing a subclass of defaultdict,
  if default_factory is set to a bound method.

  Will backport.
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  r60667 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-02-08 07:45:40 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Oops! 2.6's Rational.__ne__ didn't work.
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  r60671 | hyeshik.chang | 2008-02-08 18:10:20 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Update big5hkscs codec to conform to the HKSCS:2004 revision.
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  r60673 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-08 23:30:04 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 4 lines

  Remove unnecessary modulo division.
  The preceding test guarantees that 0 <= i < len.
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  r60674 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-09 00:02:27 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Speed-up __iter__() mixin method.
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  r60675 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-09 00:34:21 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Fill-in missing Set comparisons
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  r60677 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-09 00:57:06 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Add advice on choosing between DictMixin and MutableMapping
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- Do some minor code clean-ups.

found on legacy C compilers of HP-UX, IRIX and Tru64.  (Reported
by roadkill, Richard Townsend, Maik Hertha and Minsik Kim)

and installed layouts to make maintenance simple and easy.  And it
also adds four new codecs; big5hkscs, euc-jis-2004, shift-jis-2004
and iso2022-jp-2004.