[Python-Dev] PEP 383 update: utf8b is now the error handler

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> If the error handler is supposed to be used for codecs other than utf-8,
> perhaps it should renamed something more generic, e.g. "surrogate-escape"?

Perhaps. However, utf-8b doesn't really have to do anything with utf-8 -
it's an algorithm based on 16-bit or 32-bit code points.

> Also, if utf8-b is not provided as a codec, will there be an easy way for user
> code to use the same encoding as the IO layer does? 

s.encode(os.getfilesystemencoding(), "utf8b") will do just that (in
fact, that's exactly what the IO layer does).

Regards,
Martin