Unicode error handler

[Hieu.D.Hoang at gmail.com]

On Jan 30, 11:28 pm, Walter Dörwald <wal... at livinglogic.de> wrote:

>
> codecs.register_error("transliterate", transliterate)
>
>    Walter

Really, really slick solution.
Though, why was it [:1], not [0]? ;-)

And one more thing:
> def transliterate(exc):
>         if not isinstance(exc, UnicodeEncodeError):
>                 raise TypeError("don'ty know how to handle %r" % r)
I don't understand what %r and r are and where they are from. The man
3 printf page doesn't have %r formatting.

Thanks for the tip.
Hieu