On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:35, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> http://bugs.python.org/issue3672 >>> http://bugs.python.org/issue3297 > > No. Unicode *requires* them to be treated as errors. If you want to > pass them through then you're creating a custom encoding... which you > might argue for in this case, but it needs to be clearly separate from > the real UTF-8.
I suspect it is a common and convenient but (according to what you say) misconceived expectation that using UTF-8 to encode any Unicode string will not raise an exception. This behavior is not something which should be discarded lightly. I see little reason that this couldn't be a new codec or error handler that allowed people to choose between correct pure UTF-8 behavior or the technically incorrect but very practical behavior it currently has. [My apologies, Adam, for sending this only to you the first time] -- Michael Urman _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
