A RetroSearch Logo

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Search Query:

Showing content from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-July/016122.html below:

[Python-Dev] 2.2 Unicode questions

[Python-Dev] 2.2 Unicode questions [Python-Dev] 2.2 Unicode questionsSimon Cozens simon@netthink.co.uk
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:50:27 -0400
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:46:45AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> But isn't the whole point of UTF-16 to fool code that believes it's
> manipulating UCS-2 into a false sense of security? :-)

Well, sort of. More like fooling into a true sense of insecurity. :)

Anyway, the Standard sez that a conforming UCS-2 application will
not use characters in the surrogates area. Future versions of ISO10646
and the Unicode Standard will probably require UTF-16 instead of UCS-2.

Simon



RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4