On 6/12/07, Rauli Ruohonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Practically
> speaking, there's little need to interpret surrogate pairs as two
> code points instead of as one non-BMP code point.

Depends on your definition of "practically".

Python does interpret them that way to maintain O(1) positional access
within strings encoded with 16 bits/char.

-jJ
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