Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 02:02 am, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Yes, but UTF-16 produces 16-bit values that are outside Unicode. > > Show me. > > Before you answer, if your answer is "surrogate pairs", that is > incorrect. Surrogate pairs is how UTF-16 encodes astral characters.
UTF-16 inputs a Unicode stream and produces a stream of 16-bit numbers. Thus, the output of UTF-16 is not Unicode. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list