Random832 writes:
> I think his point is that the WHATWG standard is the one that
> governs HTML and therefore HTML that uses these encodings
> (including the C1 characters) are conformant to *that* standard,
I don't think that is a tenable interpretation of this standard.
The WHAT-WG standard
I don't expect to change your mind about the "right" way to deal with
this, but this is a more explicit description of what those of us who
advocate error handlers are thinking about. It may be useful in
writing your PEP (PEPs describe rejected counterproposals and
amendments along with adopted pr
On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 2:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 06:35:30PM +, Rob Speer wrote:
> > Guido had some very sensible feedback just a moment ago. I am wondering
> now
> > if we lost Guido because I broke python-ideas etiquette (is a pull
> request
> > not the next
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 3:36 AM, Rob Speer wrote:
> Thanks for the recommendation there, and I'd like a little extra information
> -- I don't know _mechanically_ how to write a PEP. (Where do I submit it to,
> for example?)
I can help you with that side of things. Start by checking out PEP 1:
ht
> The question to my mind is whether or not this "latin1replace" handler,
> in conjunction with existing codecs, will do the same thing as the
> WHATWG codecs. If I have understood you correctly, I think it will. Have
> I missed something?
It won't do the same thing, and neither will the "chaining
On 20.01.2018 08:01, Steve Dower wrote:
> On 20Jan2018 0518, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> do you know of a definite resource for Windows code pages
>> on MSDN or another official MS website ?
>
> I don't know of anything sorry, and my quick search didn't turn up
> anything public. But I can at least co
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 06:35:30PM +, Rob Speer wrote:
> > It depends on what you want to achieve. You may want to fail, assign a
> code point from a private area or use a surrogate escape approach.
>
> And the way to express that is with errors='replace',
> errors='surrogateescape', or whatev
