Message 115830 - Python tracker

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Éric Araujo <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Why would it be the job of untabify to report invalid non-ASCII characters in C files?
>
Since untabify works by loading C code as text, it has to assume some
encoding.   Failing with uncaught decode error (as it currently does
on non UTF-8 source) is not very user friendly.  For example, the
diagnostic does not report the position of the offending character and
does not explain how to fix the source.