Message6859

The character "\udef0" is in the range 0xD800-0xDFFF, i.e. it is an "unpaired surrogate".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16

Cpython accepts it, because cpython uses UCS-2, for which "\def0" is a valid character.

Java, and thus jython, uses UTF-16, which supports surrogate pairs for encoding characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane.

If you retry your code with values outside the range oxD800-0xDFFF, it will work.

Or provide a proper surrogate pair to decode.

This bug should be closed as "invalid" or "wont fix".