Lino Mastrodomenico wrote:
Since this byte sequence [b'\xed\xb3\xbf'] doesn't represent a valid character
when
decoded with UTF-8, it should simply be considered an invalid UTF-8
sequence of three bytes and decoded to '\udced\udcb3\udcbf' (*not*
'\udcff').
"Should be considered" or "will be considered"? Python 3.0's UTF-8
decoder happily accepts it and returns u'\udcff':
>>> b'\xed\xb3\xbf'.decode('utf-8')
'\udcff'
If the PEP depends on this being changed, it should be mentioned in the PEP.
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