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Author pitrou
Recipients barry, durin42, gward, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, terry.reedy
Date 2013-03-18.22:02:31
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> Necessary when comparing files with unknown or inconsistent encodings: 
> there's no way to convert everything to Unicode, so just leave it all
> bytes.

You could simply use the surrogateescape error handler.
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