Message 199194 - Python tracker

Message199194

Author	vstinner
Recipients	ezio.melotti, gvanrossum, kennyluck, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, tchrist, vstinner
Date	2013-10-08.11:04:10
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I don't think that performances on a microbenchmark is the good question. The good question is: does Python conform to Unicode? The answer is simple and explicit: no. Encoding lone surrogates may lead to bugs and even security vulnerabilities. Please open a new performance issue after fixing this one if you have another patch improving performances. I didn't read the patch yet, but strict, surrogatepass and surrogateescape error handlers must be checked.

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I don't think that performances on a microbenchmark is the good question.
The good question is: does Python conform to Unicode? The answer is simple
and explicit: no. Encoding lone surrogates may lead to bugs and even
security vulnerabilities.

Please open a new performance issue after fixing this one if you have
another patch improving performances.

I didn't read the patch yet, but strict, surrogatepass and surrogateescape
error handlers must be checked.

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2013-10-08 11:04:10	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, lemburg, gvanrossum, loewis, pitrou, ezio.melotti, tchrist, kennyluck, serhiy.storchaka
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