from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
encoding instead of a unicode string.

without thought. Anyway, such malformed HTML is better handled by something
like BeautifulSoup.

subclasses should be substituted as-is and not have tp_str called on
them.

about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error handlers.
(This is a variant of the Nik Haldimann's patch that detects truncated data)

the code is doing.

used.

Will backport to 2.4.