[issue8271] str.decode('utf8', 'replace') -- conformance with Unicode 5.2.0

[John Machin]

John Machin <sjmachin at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

@lemburg: """perhaps applying the same logic as for the other sequences is a better strategy"""

What other sequences??? F5-FF are invalid bytes; they don't start valid sequences. What same logic?? At the start of a character, they should get the same short sharp treatment as any other non-starter byte e.g. 80 or C0.

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