[New-bugs-announce] [issue29945] decode string:u"\ufffd" UnicodeEncodeError

[webber]

New submission from webber:

I use  python on linux, version is 2.7.13:

[root at localhost bin]# ./python2.7
Python 2.7.13 (default, Mar 30 2017, 00:54:08) 
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a=u"\ufffd"
>>> a.decode("utf=8")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/python2.7.13/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufffd' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

but,windows version run success!

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components: Unicode
messages: 290834
nosy: ezio.melotti, foxscheduler, haypo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: decode string:u"\ufffd" UnicodeEncodeError
versions: Python 2.7

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