[I18n-sig] How does Python Unicode treat surrogates?

[Tom Emerson]

Fredrik Lundh writes:
> I'm sceptical -- I see very little reason to maintain that distinction.
> let's use either UCS-2 or UCS-4 for the internal storage, stick to the
> "character strings are character sequences" concept, and keep the
> UTF-16 surrogate issue where it belongs: in the codecs.

How then is u"\U00200000" represented internally if you use UCS-2 as
the internal storage representation?

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