On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:07 AM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > (Btw, in some earlier emails, Stephen, you implied that this could be fixed > with codecs -- but it can't, because the problem isn't with the bytes > containing invalid Unicode, it's with the Unicode containing invalid bytes > -- i.e., characters that can't be encoded to the ultimate codec target.)
That's what the surrogateescape error handler is for though - it will happily accept mojibake on input (putting invalid bytes into the PUA), and happily generate mojibake on output (recreating the invalid bytes from the PUA) as well. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
