[I18n-sig] Unicode surrogates: just say no!
Paul Prescod
paulp@ActiveState.com
Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:50:24 -0700
Guido van Rossum wrote:
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>...
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> Oooh, hadn't thought of that, but yes, it makes sense!
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> Not yet implemented, but I think it should. Makes for a nice pair
> of invariants:
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> unichr(ord('\Udddddddd')) == '\Udddddddd'
> ord(unichr(0xdddddddd)) == 0xdddddddd
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> regardless of whether we're using UCS-2 or UCS-4 storage.
I'm going to presume that ord should accept surrogate pairs on both
narrow and wide interpreters.
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