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Wed May 6 22:42:03 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-May/089456.html

Terry Reedy wrote:
> Glenn Linderman wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
> +1 from me also

Despite there being also an error handler called "surrogates".

Are you serious?

Regards,
Martin

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