[Python-ideas] Support WHATWG versions of legacy encodings

Stephen J. Turnbull turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Tue Feb 6 05:10:46 EST 2018


Nick Coghlan writes:

 > Personally, I think a See Also note pointing to ftfy in the "codecs"
 > module documentation would be quite a reasonable outcome of the thread

Yes please.  The more I hear about purported use cases (with the
exception of Nathaniel's "don't crash when I manipulate the DOM" case,
which is best handled by errors='surrogateescape'), the less I see
anything "standard" about them.



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