On Thu, Mar 27, 2014, at 11:10, Rustom Mody wrote: > Just out of curiosity how do/did you type that? > When I see an exotic denizen from the unicode-universe I paste it into > emacs and ask "Who are you?" > > But with your 'def' my emacs is going a bit crazy!
Your emacs probably is using UCS-2 or UTF-16. The former can't handle characters above 65535 at all, the latter stores them as if they were two characters [so code that's not expecting them will handle them incorrectly] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
