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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu May 7 07:53:07 CEST 2009


> The error handler designed with utf-8 in mind has no name in the encode
> direction and is called "utf_8b_decoder_invalid_bytes" in the decode
> direction.  By your reasoning, *that* should be its name in Python.  The
> encoding error handler would then be named analogously
> "utf_8b_encoder_invalid_codepoints".  Even these, to me, would be better
> than confusing giving them the same name as the codec.

So are you proposing that I should rename the PEP 383 handler
to "utf_8b_encoder_invalid_codepoints"?

Regards,
Martin


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