Message2585

About the chr/unichr changes, as far as i know the jython strategy has been for all strings to be unicode, so this difference from cpython is intentional. There is even a jython bugtest (test073) that checks that chr() will accept larger values. Also mentioned here:

  http://jython.org/docs/differences.html

Unless i've misunderstood something, i'm inclinded to stick with historical jython behaviour in this case. The rest of the patch is looking okay to me so far.