[Python-Dev] 2.2 Unicode questions

[Fredrik Lundh]

mal wrote:
> Same here: UTF-16 -> UCS-2. Note that I very much favour
> removing the surrogate generation in unichr() for UCS2-builds.
> 
> If I don't here strong opposition, I'll disable this feature
> which was added as part of the UCS-4 patches. unichr()
> will then raise an exception as it did in version 2.1.

the rationale behind this change was that unichr() should
behave like the \U escape.

(they both take a 32-bit character code, and turn it into
a unicode string; see GvR's mails in the ucs4 thread for more
on this topic).

don't change one of them without considering if the other
one really does the right thing.

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