[Python-Dev] New Py_UNICODE doc

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Nicholas Bastin wrote:
> What I mean is pretty clear.  UCS-2 does *NOT* support surrogate pairs. 
>   If it did, it would be called UTF-16.  If Python really supported 
> UCS-2, then surrogate pairs from UTF-16 inputs would either get turned 
> into two garbage characters, or the "I couldn't transcode this" UCS-2 
> code point (I don't remember which on that is off the top of my head).

OTOH, if Python really supported UTF-16, then unichr(0x10000) would
work, and len(u"\U00010000") would be 1.

It is primarily just the UTF-8 codec which supports UTF-16.

Regards,
Martin