- Support encoding and decoding four-byte UTF-8 sequences
- E_unicode supports surrogate pairs, renamed to E_utf16be for clarity
- char32_t should be used for storing a Unicode code point
The no-arguments get_text() and set_text() will now return Unicode strings in Python 3, but passing in an encoding will make them return/take bytes objects.
In Python 2, they all take regular strings, but Unicode is also accepted by the no-argument get_text() and set_text().
In the future we probably want to remove most of this interface for Python users, to whom all this is unnecessary since it duplicates functionality already in the standard library.
rdb
Sam Edwards
tobspr
David Rose