[issue27971] utf-16 decoding can't handle lone surrogates

[Christoph Reiter]

New submission from Christoph Reiter:

Using Python 2.7.12

>>> u"\ud83d".encode("utf-16-le")
'=\xd8'
>>> u"\ud83d".encode("utf-16-le").decode("utf-16-le")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_16_le.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_16_le_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf16' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: unexpected end of data
>>>

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components: Unicode
messages: 274546
nosy: ezio.melotti, haypo, lazka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: utf-16 decoding can't handle lone surrogates
versions: Python 2.7

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