[issue12892] UTF-16 and UTF-32 codecs should reject (lone) surrogates

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 08.10.2013 10:46, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
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> utf-16 isn't that widely used, so it's probably fine if it becomes a bit slower.

It's the default encoding for Unicode text files and APIs on Windows,
so I'd say it *is* widely used :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#Use_in_major_operating_systems_and_environments

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