std::char::REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER - Rust
Description: API documentation for the Rust `REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER` constant in crate `std`.
Keywords: rust, rustlang, rust-lang, REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER

# Constant std::char::REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER 1.9.0 [−] [src]

    pub const REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER: char = '\u{fffd}'

`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`.

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