Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: See this talk for an explanation of the various Unicode terms and how they map to Python's implementation:
http://www.egenix.com/library/presentations/#PythonAndUnicode Also note that the Unicode standard has evolved a lot since Unicode support was added to Python in late 1999. Some terms used in Python differ from those used in Unicode 5.0 or have been defined in more strict ways than were common at the time. And finally: don't forget that Python provides ways of *working* with Unicode, i.e. it does not guarantee that a Python Unicode string always contains all code points required for e.g. UTF-16. It is well possible to store lone surrogates and invalid or unassigned code points in a Python Unicode string. ---------- nosy: +lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1581182> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
