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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Martin v. Löwis <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes:
> py> b'\xed\xa0\x80'.decode("utf-8","surrogates")
> '\ud800'

The point is, "surrogates" does not mean anything intuitive for an /error
handler/. You seem to be the only one who finds this name explicit enough,
perhaps because you chose it.
Most other handlers' names have verbs in them ("ignore", "replace",
"xmlcharrefreplace", etc.).

Regards

Antoine.