Surrogates

surrogates is a small, tested Python 3 package to encode and decode pairs of surrogate characters in Python strings. It is licensed under the MIT license.

Installation

# pip3 install --user surrogates

Usage

# python3 -m IPython
[..]
In [1]: import surrogates

In [2]: surrogates.encode('😘')
Out[2]: '\ud83d\ude18'

In [3]: surrogates.decode('\uD83D\uDE18')
Out[3]: '😘'

In [4]: hex(ord('😘'))
Out[4]: '0x1f618'

Develop & run tests

cd "$(mktemp -d)"
git clone https://github.com/hartwork/surrogates
cd surrogates/
python3 -m venv py3
source py3/bin/activate
./setup.py test