Make differences between status quo and proposed change

explicit.
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Martin v. Löwis 2009-04-29 20:01:33 +00:00
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@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ character-oriented APIs, allowing direct conversion of the
environmental data to Python str objects. environmental data to Python str objects.
On POSIX systems, Python currently applies the locale's encoding to On POSIX systems, Python currently applies the locale's encoding to
convert the byte data to Unicode. Non-decodable bytes will be convert the byte data to Unicode, failing for characters that cannot
represented as lone half surrogate codes U+DCxx. be decoded. With this PEP, non-decodable bytes will be represented as
lone half surrogate codes U+DCxx.
To convert non-decodable bytes, a new error handler "python-escape" is To convert non-decodable bytes, a new error handler "python-escape" is
introduced, which produces these half surrogates. On encoding, the introduced, which produces these half surrogates. On encoding, the