[Python-Dev] AIX shared library support

Bill Tutt billtut@microsoft.com
Wed, 14 Jun 2000 04:10:44 -0700


MAL:
> Bill:
> > Just as an FYI, the only problem I've found so far with my last patch
was
> > wrt handling Unicode characters with values in the UCS-4 code space.
(Not
> > that there are any yet, but the code must handle that case anyway, sine
I
> > don't want to have to go change it later.)

> Why is there a problem there ? Python currently uses UTF16
> as native format. UTF-16 surrogates are not supported though...
> and probably won't be for a while.

The rest of Python may not care about UTF-16, but that's no particular
reason to not have this code support generating surrogates if an input
UnicodeData.txt happens to have character names for code points that require
surrogates.

Bill