jayvdb added a comment.
I dont understand your intention with these tasks.
Do you mean that `repr(page).decode('ascii')` should not cause
`UnicodeDecodeError` ?
If so, I would like a more detailed explanation of why it should not cause
`UnicodeDecodeError`.
This certainly can be explained better in the test, but despite many many
efforts, this is the best `repr` that we can build that does the 'right' thing
in as many cases as possible.
As the comment in this test says "Bug
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95809, the repr in Python 2 should be
decodable as ASCII"
The output of `repr` **should** be ASCII on Python 2, according to the spec ,
however the Python 2 console accepts bytes in the console encoding, so we give
it bytes in the console encoding which means unicode characters are displayed
correctly. If `repr` must return ASCII, then non-ASCII must be downgraded to
ASCII somehow, which isnt pretty.
IMO this is exactly what `expectedFailure` is designed for, and I've
presented my opinion supporting their use at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129368#2153128 , where we can continue that
debate.
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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130919
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