[Python-ideas] Add "htmlcharrefreplace" error handler

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 13:17:00 CEST 2013


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:11 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> I think you are forgetting that the output of such a codec
> is not necessarily always meant for sending over the wire
> to some browser. It may well be used for creating data which
> then has to be manipulated by other tools or humans.
>

+1

On top of that, even HTML that is sent over the wire to a browser may end
up being read by a human.  It is for a good reason that every browser has a
view source option more or less readily available.
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