>>> b"\xed\xb4\x80".decode()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xed in position
0: invalid continuation byte
But 0xED is not a continuation byte, it's a start byte. And it's a
perfectly valid one:
>>> b"\xed\x9f\xbf".decode()
'\ud7ff'
Pike is more explicit about what the problem is:
> utf8_to_string("\xed\xb4\x80");
UTF-8 sequence beginning with 0xed 0xb4 at index 0 would decode to a
UTF-16 surrogate character.
Is this something where Python's error message could do with
improvement, or is it not worth the hassle? Should I raise a tracker
issue about this?
ChrisA
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