Message 115837 - Python tracker

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Éric Araujo <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> My real question was: Shouldn’t this be a VCS hook instead of untabify’s job? (or in addition to untabify if you insist)
>

Yes,  VCS hook makes sense (and may almost eliminate the need to
handle invalid bytestreams in untabify).  The hard question is still
the same, though: are non-ascii characters allowed in python C code?
My answer is "no".