[Python-ideas] Add "namereplace" error handler

Masklinn masklinn at masklinn.net
Tue Jun 11 18:50:55 CEST 2013


On 2013-06-11, at 16:51 , Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

> 11.06.13 17:40, Masklinn написав(ла):
>> I'm not aware of other
>> systems which would allow *naming* all of these codepoints outside of
>> unicode. "namereplace" feels short, sweet and clear.
> 
> HTML, (La)TeX…

There are only 252 HTML entity names, which is obviously insufficient.
Named latex symbols are more extensive (at 2826 according to the
reference I found) but still woefully inadequate. Furthermore one would
expect such domain-specific (but not python-specific) replacements to be
patterned after xmlcharrefreplace.


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