[Python-ideas] Add "htmlcharrefreplace" error handler

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 14.06.2013 10:49, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:44:09 +0200
> "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>
>>> IMHO character references (named or numerical) should never be used in
>>> HTML (with the exception of " > and <).
>>> They exist mainly for three reasons:
>>> 1) provide a way to include characters that are not available in the
>>> used encoding (e.g. if you are using an obsolete encoding like
>>> windows-1252 but still want to use "fancy" characters);
>>> 2) to keep the HTML source ASCII-only;
>>
>> This is the main reason for using them. HTML's default encoding
>> is Latin-1, unlike XML.
> 
> I'd like to know which good reasons there are to not use utf-8 for HTML
> pages in 2013.
> "Keeping the HTML source ASCII-only" is just silly IMO, and it doesn't
> warrant special support in Python's codec error handlers.

Ezio and I gave reasons, but you've cut them away ;-)

Note that error handlers can be registered in the codec registry.
You don't need to add support for them to each and every codec,
so the added code is minimal.

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