[Python-Dev] Decoding incomplete unicode (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Aug 19 21:05:43 CEST 2004

Walter Dörwald wrote:

Both approaches have one problem: Error handling won't work for them. If the error handling is "replace", the decoder should return U+FFFD for the final trailing incomplete sequence in read(). This won't happen when read() never reads those bytes from the input stream.

Ok. So it really looks like a final flag on read is necessary.

Well, I had to choose a subject. ;)

I still would prefer if the two issues were discussed separately.

Regards, Martin

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