[Python-3000] How will unicode get used?

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> It is somewhat tricky to implement a normalization algorithm in
> UTF-16, since you must combine surrogate pairs first in order to
> find out what the canonical decomposition of the code point is;
> but it's just more code, and no problem in principle.

The same issue is with virtually any algorithm: more code,
more complex code is needed with UTF-16 than with UTF-32.

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