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Wed Apr 29 22:15:12 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-April/089214.html

>     Sure. However, that requires you to provide meaningful, reproducible
>     counter-examples, rather than a stenographic formulation that might
>     hint some problem you apparently see (which I believe is just not
>     there).
> 
> 
> Well, here's another one: PEP 383 would disallow UTF-8 encodings of half
> surrogates.  But such encodings are currently supported by Python, and
> they are used as part of CESU-8 coding.  That's, in fact, a common way
> of converting UTF-16 to UTF-8.  How are you going to deal with existing
> code that relies on being able to code half surrogates as UTF-8?

Can you please elaborate? What code specifically are you talking about?

Regards,
Martin

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[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces