On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Antoine Pitrou writes: > > > Sorry, what is a conformant UTF-16 array op? > > For starters, one that doesn't ever return lone surrogates, but rather > interprets surrogate pairs as Unicode code points as in UTF-16. (This > is not a Unicode standard definition, it's intended to be suggestive > of why many app writers will be distressed if they must use Python > unicode/str in a narrow build without a fairly comprehensive library > that wraps the arrays in operations that treat unicode/str as an array > of code points.)
That sounds like a contradiction -- it wouldn't be a UTF-16 array if you couldn't tell that it was using UTF-16. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
