[Python-Dev] Multilingual programming article on the Red Hat Developer blog

[R. David Murray]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:57:21 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> As long as the Java string manipulation functions don't check for
> surrogates, you should be fine with this representation.  Of course I
> suppose your matching functions (etc) don't check for them either, so
> you will be somewhat vulnerable to bugs due to treating them as
> characters.  But the same is true for CPython, AFAIK.

>From my point of view, the string function laxness is a feature, not a
bug.  But I get what you mean.

--David