I think he was more interested in the invariant Martin proposed, that len("\U00010000")
should always be the same and should always be 1. Bill _______________________________________________ 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