[Python-ideas] Processing surrogates in

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On Thu, May 14, 2015, at 04:48, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
> As far as I can tell, all of your extra cases are just examples of the
> surrogateescape error handler, which Nick already mentioned.

Technically filesystem names (and other similar boundary APIs like
environ, anything ctypes, etc) on Windows can contain arbitrary
surrogates and have nothing to do with surrogateescape.