[Python-ideas] Processing surrogates in

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Nick Coghlan writes:

 > Three potential expected sources of surrogates have been identified:

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 > * decomposed surrogate pairs for astral characters

I wouldn't call that "expected", as it requires wilful malice on the
part of a programmer (not users or other external sources of input),
though.  No standard codec should produce such in a PEP 393 Python.