On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:06 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The proposal of using U+0000 seems like it would have been almost the same > from such a wrapper's perspective, except (A) people using the filesystem > APIs without the benefit of such a wrapper would have been even more > screwed, and (B) there are a few nasty corner-cases when dealing with > surrogate (i.e. invalid, in UTF-8) code points which I'm not quite sure what > it would have done with.
Surrogates in UTF-8 *should* be treated as errors, but current python is far too lax. That actually leads to another problem: improving validating will change what gets escaped and what doesn't. http://bugs.python.org/issue3297 http://bugs.python.org/issue3672 -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ 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
