On 2009-05-03 19:39, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> If the error handler is supposed to be used for codecs other than utf-8, >> perhaps it should renamed something more generic, e.g. "surrogate-escape"? > > Perhaps. However, utf-8b doesn't really have to do anything with utf-8 - > it's an algorithm based on 16-bit or 32-bit code points.
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