Status: Accepted
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Enhancement Target-2.7.7 Priority-Medium bwic
New issue 1328 by pekka.klarck: Telnet library: Encoding errors should be
ignored by default and error handler should be configurable
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1328
RF 2.7.6 added a possibility to specify encoding and started to use UTF-8
by default (issue 1312). That was a backwards-incompatible change because
earlier versions used ASCII but ignored possible encoding errors (although
that wasn't always done as issue 1310 demonstrates).
For backwards-compatibility reasons we should change encoding/decoding to
ignore error by default. Additionally the error handler should be made
configurable.
A natural way to make the error handler configurable is adding a new
`encoding_errors` argument to __init__, open_connection, and set_encoding
after the already accepted `encoding` argument. A problem with the two
first ones is that after `encoding` there is `default_log_level` argument
so the change is backwards-incompatible. Because `default_log_level` was
also added in RF 2.7.6 it probably isn't used a lot yet, and because it is
most likely used as a named argument (e.g. `default_log_level='DEBUG'`),
adding a new argument before it ought to be safe.
