[Python-Dev] 2.2 Unicode questions

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:49:04 +0200


Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:39:30PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >Same here: UTF-16 -> UCS-2. Note that I very much favour
> >removing the surrogate generation in unichr() for UCS2-builds.
> 
> Do I understand the new behavior you intend to implement?
>   * Narrow Python: unichr() accepts values from 0 .. 65535.  len(unichr(x))
>     is always 1.
>   * Wide Python: unichr() accepts values from 0 .. 0x110000.  len(unichr(x))
>     is also always 1.

Right.

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