On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:18:43 -0800 Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > I'm not an expert here or anything, but from what we've been hearing it > sounds like it must be used by all standard-compliant HTML parsers. I don't > *like* the standard much, but I don't think that the stdlib should refuse > to handle standard-compliant HTML, or help users handle standard-compliant > HTML correctly, just because the HTML standard has unfortunate things in > it. We're not going to convince them to change the standard or anything. > And this whole thread started with someone said that their mojibake fixing > library is having trouble because of this, so clearly mojibake does still > exist.
This is true. The other question is what the bar is for admitting new encodings in the standard library. I don't know much about the history of past practices there, so I will happily leave the decision to other people such as Marc-André. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
