[Python-ideas] PEP 540: Add a new UTF-8 mode

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 04:38:22PM +0100, Victor Stinner wrote:

[...]
> Python 3 promotes Unicode everywhere including filenames. A solution to
> support filenames not decodable from the locale encoding was found: the
> ``surrogateescape`` error handler (`PEP 393
> <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/>`_), store undecodable bytes
> as surrogate characters.

PEP 393 is the Flexible String Respresentation.

I think you want PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character 
Interfaces.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0383/

> The problem is that operating system data like filenames are decoded
> using the ``surrogateescape`` error handler (PEP 393).

/s/393/283/



-- 
Steve