[Python-Dev] Re: Relaxing Unicode error handling

[Aahz]

Martin:
>
> I'd like to add a static property unicode.errorhandling, which defaults
> to "strict". Applications could set this to "replace" or "ignore",
> silencing the errors, and risking loss of data.
> 
> What do you think?

Two traditional questions:

* How does this work for library writers?

* How does this work with threads?
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