[issue12729] Python lib re cannot handle Unicode properly due to narrow/wide bug

[Matthew Barnett]

Matthew Barnett <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> added the comment:

In a narrow build, a codepoint in the astral plane is encoded as surrogate pair.

I could implement a workaround for it in the regex module, but I think that the proper place to fix it is in the language as a whole, perhaps by implementing PEP 393 ("Flexible String Representation").

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