2009/5/6 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>:
> Martin v. Löwis <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes:
>>
>> Despite there being also an error handler called "surrogates".
>
> People, perhaps we could end all the bikeshedding and call one of those 
> handlers
> "surrogates-pass" and the other "surrogates-escape", which sounds quite 
> faithful
> to what they actually /do/?

We could also stop the bikeshedding by sticking with the name utf8b.
Martin's comment that it is the official name for this algorithm seems
compelling to me (even if it is confusing because of its similarity
with utf-8).

Paul.
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