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

MRAB google at mrabarnett.plus.com
Fri May 8 00:27:08 CEST 2009

Terry Reedy wrote:

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Given your explanation of what the new 'surrogates' handler does (pass rather than reject erroneous surrogates), I think 'surrogatespass' is fine. Thus, I considoer that and 'surrogatesexcape' the best proposal the best so far and suggest that you make this pair the current status quo to be argued against and improved ... or not.

That's exactly what I want to avoid: more bike-shedding. If this is now changed, it cannot be possibly be argued against and improved - it would be final, end of discussion (please!!!). So I'm happy to make it "surrogatepass" and "surrogateescape" as proposed by Walter. I'm sure you didn't really mean the spelling of "excape" to be taken literally - whether or not you meant the plural and the underscore literally, I cannot tell. Stephen Turnbull approved singular, so that's good enough for me. Those minor tweaks for consistency with existing names are what I meant by 'improve' (with good arguments) and I approve of them also. +1 on stopping here. We argue because we care. :-)

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