Constant std::char::REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER

1.9.0· source · [−]

pub const REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER: char = char::REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER; // '�'

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U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (�) is used in Unicode to represent a decoding error.

It can occur, for example, when giving ill-formed UTF-8 bytes to String::from_utf8_lossy.