Python's handling of unicode surrogates

[Ross Ridge]

Rhamphoryncus  <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:
>The only code that will be changed is that which doesn't handle
>surrogates properly.  Some will start working properly.  Some (ie
>random.choice(u'\U00100000\uFFFF')) will fail explicitly (rather than
>silently).

You're falsely assuming that any code that doesn't support surrogates
is broken.  Supporting surrogates is no more required than supporting
combining characters, right-to-left languages or lower case letters.

					Ross Ridge

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