Support for "wide" Unicode characters

[Paul Prescod]

Terry Reedy wrote:
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>...
> 
> I find this ambiguous.  Is 'codepoint' a synonym for integer (in range 0 to
> MAX)? or just for integer that does or might someday represent a character?
> Does 'some'  (in all three uses) refer to integers or codepoints?

Okay:

    Code point

        If you imagine Unicode as a mapping from integers to
        characters, each integer is a code point. In other words
        a code point is an integer between 0 and TOPCHAR.
        Some code points are really mapped to characters. Some will 
        someday be used for characters. Some are guaranteed never 
        to be used for characters.


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