On 30.08.2014 01:37, Greg Ewing wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> we needed
>> a way to make sure that Python 3 also optionally supports working
>> with lone surrogates in such UTF-8 streams (nowadays called CESU-8:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESU-8).
>
> I don't think CESU-8 is the same thing
Greg Ewing writes:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > we needed
> > a way to make sure that Python 3 also optionally supports working
> > with lone surrogates in such UTF-8 streams (nowadays called CESU-8:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESU-8).
Besides what Greg says, CESU-8 is an UTF, and therefo
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
we needed
a way to make sure that Python 3 also optionally supports working
with lone surrogates in such UTF-8 streams (nowadays called CESU-8:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESU-8).
I don't think CESU-8 is the same thing. According to the wiki
page, CESU-8 *requires* all co
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
On 29.08.2014 02:41, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Since Python allows working with lone surrogates in Unicode (they
are valid code points) and we're using UTF-8 for marshal, we needed
a way to make sure that Python 3 also optionally supports working
with l
On 29.08.2014 13:22, Isaac Morland wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>> On 29.08.2014 02:41, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> Since Python allows working with lone surrogates in Unicode (they
>> are valid code points) and we're using UTF-8 for marshal, we needed
>> a way to make su
On 29.08.2014 02:41, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> In the process of booking up for my other post in this thread, I
> noticed the 'surrogatepass' handler.
>
> Is there a real use case for the 'surrogatepass' error handler? It
> seems like a horrible break in the abstraction. IMHO, if there's a
>
In the process of booking up for my other post in this thread, I
noticed the 'surrogatepass' handler.
Is there a real use case for the 'surrogatepass' error handler? It
seems like a horrible break in the abstraction. IMHO, if there's a
need, the application should handle this. Python shouldn't
