Re: UTF-8 validation

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez
<javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Cezary H. Noweta <chn@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>> The simple process [ill-formed] => [well-formed] can be named validation
>
> Unfortunately, "validation" is taken in many circles as "verifying the
> validity of input", without changing said input in any form.  And to
> make it worse, Unicode also defines "normalization" (which would be
> the right term in most other contexts) as something else.
>
> I propose coining the ugly term "validification", meaning "making the
> (possibly invalid) input valid"

utf8.make_safe?

/s/ Adam