[Python-ideas] Add "htmlcharrefreplace" error handler

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 14.06.2013 14:39, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
> 2013/6/14 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
> 
>> Making registration manual would indeed be a better fit for the
>> intended use cases, IMO. I don't think such a specialized function
>> belongs to the built-in set of error handlers.
>>
> 
> By the way, why is it necessary to register?
> Since an error handler is defined by its callback function,
> we could allow functions for the "errors" parameter.

For the same reason we register modules in sys.modules:
to be able to reference them by name, rather than by object.

Also note that codecs expect to get the error parameter as string
to keep the API simple and to make short-cuts easy to implement
in the code (esp. in the C implementations).

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