Xiang Zhang added the comment: With the latest build, even encode will fail:
Python 3.6.0a4+ (default:dad4c42869f6, Sep 6 2016, 21:41:38) [GCC 5.2.1 20151010] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> u"\ud83d".encode("utf-16-le") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-16-le' codec can't encode character '\ud83d' in position 0: surrogates not allowed ---------- nosy: +xiang.zhang _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27971> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com