[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Others have made this suggestion, and it is helpful to the PEP, but not
> sufficient.  As implemented as an error handler, I'm not sure that the
> b'\xed\xb3\xbf' sequence would trigger the error handler, if the UTF-8
> decoder is happy with it.  Which, in my testing, it is.

Rest assured that the utf-8b codec will work the way it is specified.

Regards,
Martin