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Author ncoghlan
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Date 2014-08-27.10:50:20
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In the discussion on issue 18814, Antoine pointed out that in a Python 3 world, using backslashescape during decoding actually makes sense - it lets you accurately report arbitrary bytes in the sequence, without needing surrogateescape or surrogatepass to be used when encoding later.
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