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

[Tom Emerson]

Fredrik Lundh writes:
> it is not directly supported in Python 2.0, 2.1, and the
> current 2.2 codebase.  no amount of arguing or wishful
> thinking will change that.

It is supported insofar as I can write

u"\U0020000"

and get the UTF-16 encoded u"\ud840\udc00" back. If you limit the
internal representation to UCS-2 then you constrain yourself only to
Plane 0 and the surrogate pairs are undefined. Hence you would have to
disallow the above notation.

    -tree

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