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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> latin1? I thought latin1 had a code point for 0-255, so how could using it
\> raise an encoding error?

Latin-1 / ISO-8859-1 defines a character for every byte, so any byte
string will \*decode\*. It only defines 256 characters as having
equivalent bytes, though, so \*encoding\* can fail.

unless it was decoded as latin-1 in the first place. doesn't the surrogate escape thing only work properly if you decode/encode with the same encoding?

-CHB



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