[issue12263] punycode codec ignores the error handler argument

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> Oh, I forgot to give a little bit more details.
> 
> b'abc\xff-'.decode('punycode', 'ignore') and
> b'abc\xff-'.decode('punycode', 'replace') raise a UnicodeDecodeError:
> the error handler is just useless (ignored) here.

That's not my point:

b"foo".decode("punycode","replace")

currently succeeds, but raises an UnicodeError under the patch.

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