2009/5/5 Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org>:
> Third, it is not clear to me why non-decodable ASCII should be an
> error.

The PEP originally allowed the conversion to U+DCxx of bytes below 128
that cannot be decoded by the encoding used, but this creates
potential security problems.

See: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-April/089102.html>

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Lino Mastrodomenico
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