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

[Martin v. Loewis]

> Martin v. Loewis writes:
> > So nothing will happen until enough Chinese users complain. I don't
> > know whether you count as Chinese for these purposes :-)
> 
> Perhaps not. :-) But the Chinese aren't the only ones to worry
> about. The Japanese also have characters being added outside the BMP,
> and Ruby holds sway in Japan...

That's a good point. How does Ruby deal with surrogates? Java JDK 1.4?
Perl? Tcl? Windows XP?

Regards,
Martin