2009/4/22 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>: > To convert non-decodable bytes, a new error handler "python-escape" is > introduced, which decodes non-decodable bytes using into a private-use > character U+F01xx, which is believed to not conflict with private-use > characters that currently exist in Python codecs.
Why not use U+DCxx for non-UTF-8 encodings too? Overall I like the PEP: I think it's the best proposal so far that doesn't put an heavy burden on applications that only want to do simple things with the API. -- Lino Mastrodomenico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list