[I18n-sig] How does Python Unicode treat surrogates?

[Martin v. Loewis]

> It is not an option because we chose Unicode as our basis for 
> i18n work and not the ISO 10646 Uniform Character Set.

Please speak for yourself only.

> > And why can't Python support the two standards simultaneously?
> 
> Why would you want to support two standards for the same thing ?

Because they are almost identical.

Regards,
Martin