Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
""" Because the most commonly used characters are all in the Basic Multilingual Plane, converting between surrogate pairs and the original values is often not tested thoroughly. This leads to persistent bugs, and potential security holes, even in popular and well-reviewed application software. """
Maybe Python should have used UTF-8 as its internal unicode representation. Then people who were foolish enough to assume one character per string item would have their programs break rather soon under only light unicode testing. :-) -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
