[Python-Dev] PEP 383 update: utf8b is now the error handler (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed May 6 22:42:03 CEST 2009

Terry Reedy wrote:

Glenn Linderman wrote:

On approximately 5/6/2009 3:08 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of MRAB:

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Judging by the existing names, I think that 'surrogate' would be reasonable. It already contains the meaning of substitute, it's not too long, and the codes which act as replacements are already called surrogates.

I want to avoid any such confusion with Python codecs and don't understand why you are making a problem out of this. +1 for "surrogate" as the name for the error handler. +1 from me also

Despite there being also an error handler called "surrogates".

Are you serious?

Regards, Martin

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