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

[Terry Reedy]

Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On approximately 5/6/2009 3:08 AM, came the following characters from 
> the keyboard of MRAB:
>> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
>> Judging by the existing names, I think that 'surrogate' would be
>> reasonable. It already contains the meaning of substitute, it's not too
>> long, and the codes which act as replacements are already called
>> surrogates.
>>
>>> I want to avoid any such confusion with Python codecs and don't
>>> understand why you are making a problem out of this.
> 
> 
> +1 for "surrogate" as the name for the error handler.
> 
> 
+1 from me also