[Python-Dev] Relaxing Unicode error handling (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Tue Jan 6 05:27:00 EST 2004

Martin v. Loewis wrote:

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Codecs define what the default error handling should be (setting errors to NULL), not the Unicode implementation. I'm not proposing to change this. Codecs would continue to define their error handling. The builtin codecs would base their decision on unicode.errorhandling, though.

But if you change the default behaviour of the builtin codecs only, how would this help a user of a broken application ?

The Unicode implementation would continue to use "strict" for things like low-level parser marker conversions and external codecs would also not work as expected (e.g. the Asian codecs).

In the end, I don't think we'd gain anything much except another global to carry around.

-- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com

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