Nicholas Bastin wrote: > What I mean is pretty clear. UCS-2 does *NOT* support surrogate pairs. > If it did, it would be called UTF-16. If Python really supported > UCS-2, then surrogate pairs from UTF-16 inputs would either get turned > into two garbage characters, or the "I couldn't transcode this" UCS-2 > code point (I don't remember which on that is off the top of my head).
OTOH, if Python really supported UTF-16, then unichr(0x10000) would work, and len(u"\U00010000") would be 1. It is primarily just the UTF-8 codec which supports UTF-16. 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
