[Python-Dev] len(chr(i)) = 2? (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Tue Nov 23 13:15:20 CET 2010

Terry Reedy writes:

Yes. As I read the standard, UCS-2 is limited to BMP chars.

Et tu, Terry?

OK, I change my vote on the suggestion of "UCS2" to -1. If a couple of conscientious blokes like you and David both understand it that way, I can't see any way to fight it.

FWIW, ISO/IEC 10646 (which is authoritative for UCS-2 and UCS-4) is available via

http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html

Probably I'm the last non-author to ever read that document!

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