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

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

> Considering the UTF-16 codec isn't self-consistent, it's a stretch to say it's not a bug.

I didn't say that it's not a bug. I said that it's not possible to
modify a codec at this point in Python 2.7 without taking a risk of
breaking applications relying on the current behaviour. Even in Python
3, we don't do such change in minor releases, but only in major
releases.

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