Add the "htmlcharrefreplace" error handler

[serhiy-storchaka]

BPO	19667
Nosy	@malemburg, @terryjreedy, @pfmoore, @pitrou, @ezio-melotti, @stevendaprano, @berkerpeksag, @serhiy-storchaka
Files	htmlcharrefreplace.patch

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title = 'Add the "htmlcharrefreplace" error handler'
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Linked PRs

• gh-63866: Add the "htmlcharrefreplace" error handler #155223

[serhiy-storchaka]

The proposed patch adds the htmlcharrefreplace_errors() function which implements the "htmlcharrefreplace" error handler in the html module. This error handler is almost same as the "xmlcharrefreplace" error handler, but first try to replace an unencodable character to HTML named character reference. Result is a little more human-readable than with "xmlcharrefreplace".

See also a discussion on Python-Ideas: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ideas/21307 .

[ezio-melotti]

As I wrote in the thread, I don't like this too much.

[serhiy-storchaka]

What should be done to make it more like you?

Paul Moore, Marc-Andre Lemburg, Ethan Furman and Terry Jan Reedy voted for it.

Steven D'Aprano proposed same idea on comp.python.general: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/742886 . And there are a number of implementations (partially buggy) in third-party code. One of them in CPython testsuite.

It would be good to have one standard implementation.

[pitrou]

As long as it isn't built-in, I see no problems for including it personally.

[serhiy-storchaka]

The Python-Ideas discussion is now at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/thread/72JTO7ZQNYHM4OMPXTURVGIYPLNNCMDG/ (the gmane links are dead).

I opened #155223.