utf-16 is basically a superset of ucs-2. See here for more detail:
http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/unicode.html
If you ensure that ord() of each output character is < 0x10000
you'll get valid ucs-2 output if you use utf-16 encoding. If you
build python with --enable-unicode=ucs2 no character can be >= 0x10000
so you don't have to check.
thank you very match! that's exactly what i need
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