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It seems like what Python needs here is some equivalent of .to_string_lossy(). But that's just a library function, not a big architectural change.

• o11c 3y ago
  That's spelled `errors='surrogateescape'` but it's a horrible hack and doesn't fix the main lies that strings propogate.
  • kragen 3y ago
    surrogateescape, aka utf-8b, is a brilliant hack, and would have been an acceptable default, eliminating the subtle bugs i'm talking about