[issue23614] Opaque error message on UTF-8 decoding to surrogates

[Chris Angelico]

Chris Angelico added the comment:

Got around to tracking down where this is actually being done. It's in Objects/stringlib/codecs.h and it looks to be a hot area for optimization. I don't want to fiddle with it without knowing a lot about the performance implications (UTF-8 encode/decode being a pretty common operation), and since my knowledge of CPU operation costs is about fifteen or twenty years out of date, it's probably best I not do this. It would be nice if the message could be improved per Ezio's suggestion, but that would mean returning more information to the caller.

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