[Python-Dev] PEP 383 update: utf8b is now the error handler

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 1:27 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>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.
> >
> >
> > To me that lack of relationship with utf8 suggests that it should not be
> > called utf8b
>
> Perhaps. However, giving it that name was Markus Kuhn's choice - and
> while it may be confusing, it's (IMO) useful to be consistent with this
> background.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
Ah, right.  My original searches for utf8b didn't turn up much but searching
on his name turns some up.  Good choice of name then.

 http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2000-07/msg00040.html
 http://bsittler.livejournal.com/10381.html
 http://hyperreal.org/~est/utf-8b/

-gps
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