[Python-Dev] 2.2 Unicode questions

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:46:45 -0400


> If by UCS-2 you actually mean UTF-16, then using surrogates is the
> right approach. :)

But isn't the whole point of UTF-16 to fool code that believes it's
manipulating UCS-2 into a false sense of security? :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)