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Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 02:47:36 +1000
Subject: Re: Unicode surrogate pairs (Python 3.4)
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On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Jon Ribbens
<jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:
> I did some experimentation, and it looks like the answer is:
>
>   "\udb40\udd9d".encode("utf16", "surrogatepass").decode("utf16")
>
> Thanks for your help!

Ha! That's the one. I went poking around but couldn't find the name
for it. That's exactly the sloppy encoding that I was talking about.

ChrisA