I think this misunderstanding is mostly down to an unfortunate turn of
phrase in the comment on the relevant production rule in the spec.

/* any Unicode character, excluding the surrogate blocks ... */

I can see why people assume that "excluding" *qualifies*  the phrase
"any Unicode character", whereas in fact it simply *explains* it,
since values in the surrogate blocks are by definition NOT Unicode
characters, though they may be part of a sequence that represents such
a character.

Michael
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