On 2008-12-08 21:45, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> writes: >> Such application specific error handlers could then also apply >> whatever fancy round-trip safe encoding of non-decodable bytes >> to Unicode escapes, private code points, etc. as seen fit by the >> application. > > I'd argue that such fancy round-trip safe error handler should be provided by > Python. It's not reasonable to expect application coders to come up with their > own codec variation based on subtle details of the unicode spec.
Fair enough. We could add some e.g. * a round-trip safe escape error handler that uses a Unicode private code point area which we officially reserve for the Python interpreter * a human readable escape error handler that encodes the problem bytes to say hex escapes, e.g. gives Andr\xe9 for a Latin-1 encoded directory name instead of failing * a warning error handler that replaces the problem cases with a question mark and issues a warning through the warning framework -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 08 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2008-12-02: Released mxODBC.Connect 1.0.0 http://python.egenix.com/ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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