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Wed May 6 19:08:22 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-May/089448.html

On approximately 5/6/2009 3:08 AM, came the following characters from 
the keyboard of MRAB:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Judging by the existing names, I think that 'surrogate' would be
> reasonable. It already contains the meaning of substitute, it's not too
> long, and the codes which act as replacements are already called
> surrogates.
> 
>> I want to avoid any such confusion with Python codecs and don't
>> understand why you are making a problem out of this.


+1 for "surrogate" as the name for the error handler.


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[Python-Dev] PEP 383 update: utf8b is now the error handler