[IronPython] IronPython unichr() problem with values greater than 65536

[Dino Viehland]

Can Gencer wrote:
>  I am having some problems with the unichr() built in function in
>  IronPython. It only seems to support unicode characters up to 2 bytes,
>  not the extended unicode characters. You can simply try a command like
>  unichr(66363) and it will give a ValueError, saying that the value is
>  not in range. However 66363 is a valid unicode character. Is there a
>  way to configure IronPython to support wide unicode characters? I am
>  using IronPython 2.6.


There's no way to get 32-bit Unicode support.  IronPython builds on the
Unicode support from .NET which is only UTF16.  Of course you can always
use surrogate characters to represent the full range of characters.