Re: How does Python Unicode treat surrogates?

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Mon, 25 Jun 2001 07:24:28 -0700, Mark Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:

> In most people's experience, it is best to leave the low level interfaces
> with indices in terms of code units, then supply some utility routines that
> tell you information about code points.

It's yet better to work on characters instead of code units internally,
i.e. use UTF-whatever only for interaction with external world.

Unfortunately some languages did a mistake of using only 16 bits per
character and it's not easy in them.

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