[issue8271] str.decode('utf8', 'replace') -- conformance with Unicode 5.2.0

[John Machin]

John Machin <sjmachin at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

Chapter 3, page 94: """As a consequence of the well-formedness conditions specified in Table 3-7, the following byte values are disallowed in UTF-8: C0–C1, F5–FF"""

Of course they should be handled by the simple expedient of setting their length entry to zero. Why write code when there is an existing mechanism??

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