[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

[Nick Coghlan]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:07 AM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> (Btw, in some earlier emails, Stephen, you implied that this could be fixed
> with codecs -- but it can't, because the problem isn't with the bytes
> containing invalid Unicode, it's with the Unicode containing invalid bytes
> -- i.e., characters that can't be encoded to the ultimate codec target.)

That's what the surrogateescape error handler is for though - it will
happily accept mojibake on input (putting invalid bytes into the PUA),
and happily generate mojibake on output (recreating the invalid bytes
from the PUA) as well.

Cheers,
Nick.

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