[I18n-sig] Unicode surrogates: just say no!

Paul Prescod paulp@ActiveState.com
Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:50:24 -0700


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Oooh, hadn't thought of that, but yes, it makes sense!
> 
> Not yet implemented, but I think it should.  Makes for a nice pair
> of invariants:
> 
>   unichr(ord('\Udddddddd')) == '\Udddddddd'
>   ord(unichr(0xdddddddd)) == 0xdddddddd
> 
> regardless of whether we're using UCS-2 or UCS-4 storage.

I'm going to presume that ord should accept surrogate pairs on both
narrow and wide interpreters.

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