On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>:
>
>> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>
>>> That said, UTF-8 does suffer badly from its not being
>>> a bijective mapping.
>>
>> Can you explain?
>
> In Python terms, there are bytes objects b that don't satisfy:
>
> b.decode('utf-8').encode('utf-8') == b
Please provide an example; that sounds like a bug. If there is any
invalid UTF-8 stream which decodes without an error, it is actually a
security bug, and should be fixed pronto in all affected and supported
versions.
ChrisA
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