Clarify what ":errorhandler" refers to.

d987545d · Georg Brandl · 9cf19340 · d987545d
Commit d987545d authored Jun 11, 2008 by Georg Brandl
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@@ -484,7 +484,8 @@ These environment variables influence Python's behavior.
 .. envvar:: PYTHONIOENCODING

   Overrides the encoding used for stdin/stdout/stderr, in the syntax
-   encodingname:errorhandler, with the :errors part being optional.
+   ``encodingname:errorhandler``.  The ``:errorhandler`` part is optional and
+   has the same meaning as in :func:`str.encode`.

   .. versionadded:: 2.6