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r73698 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-06-30 00:36:49 +0200 (mar., 30 juin 2009) | 7 lines
#6373: SystemError in str.encode('latin1', 'surrogateescape')
if the string contains unpaired surrogates.
(In debug build, crash in assert())
This can happen with normal processing, if python starts with utf-8,
then calls sys.setfilesystemencoding('latin-1')
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #6373: Fixed a RuntimeError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
+ the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
+ surrogates.
+
Library
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