[Python-Dev] Support for "wide" Unicode characters

[Fredrik Lundh]

Neil Hodgson wrote:
> > u[i] is a character. If u is Unicode, then u[i] is a Python Unicode
> > character.
>
>    This wasn't usefully true in the past for DBCS strings and is not the
> right way to think of either narrow or wide strings now. The idea that
> strings are arrays of characters gets in the way

if you stop confusing binary buffers with text strings, all such
problems will go away.

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