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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed May 6 22:56:34 CEST 2009

Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Martin v. Löwis <martin v.loewis.de> writes:

Despite there being also an error handler called "surrogates". People, perhaps we could end all the bikeshedding and call one of those handlers "surrogates-pass" and the other "surrogates-escape", which sounds quite faithful to what they actually /do/?

The problem with these bike-shedding discussions is that you cannot stop them with a proposal. People will counter-propose.

I would be willing to accept a ruling from someone who a) is a native speaker of English, and b) has demonstrated to fully understand what these do, and c) has understood why I insist on calling it utf8b.

Regards, Martin

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