Nicholas Bastin wrote: > I'm not sure the Python documentation is the place to teach someone > about unicode. The ISO 10646 pretty clearly defines UCS-2 as only > containing characters in the BMP (plane zero). On the other hand, I > don't know why python lets you choose UCS-2 anyhow, since it's almost > always not what you want.
It certainly is, in most cases. On Windows, it is the only way to get reasonable interoperability with the platform's WCHAR (i.e. just cast a Py_UNICODE* into a WCHAR*). To a limited degree, in UCS-2 mode, Python has support for surrogate characters (e.g. in UTF-8 codec), so it is not "pure" UCS-2, but this is a minor issue. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
