[I18n-sig] Unicode surrogates: just say no!

[Paul Prescod]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
>...
> 
>   - unichr(i) for i >= 0x110000 (and hence corresponding \u and \U)
>     raises an exception at Python-to-bytecode compile-time

unichr(i) is an expression. When would it be evaluated at compile-time?

Also, I'm not sure what runtime behavior you want for these "very large"
unichr(i) values.

In general I don't understand why we're treating the > 0x11000 range
specially at all?
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