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.
# pip3 install --user surrogates# 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'cd "$(mktemp -d)"
git clone https://github.com/hartwork/surrogates
cd surrogates/
python3 -m venv py3
source py3/bin/activate
./setup.py test
pip3 install pre-commit
pre-commit install --install-hooks