-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 19:46, Alastair Tse wrote: > UCS4 uses significantly more memory than UCS2. For those who are not > familiar with unicode, UCS2 means representing unicode characters with > 16 bit words and UCS4 means representing unicode characters in 32 bit > words. Not that both Redhat (>9) and Debian (unstable) have python-2.3 > compiled with UCS4 by default. > > Currently, you get UCS4 if you have "cjk" in your USE flags because > the only language to use the extra pane in UCS4 are CJK langauges. > I've been using UCS4 for a while now and it works without any > problems. >
Isn't it true that it is possible to to encode the few 4 byte characters into a number of 2byte sequences. I think that is more than enough for most cases (who needs to read/write cjk anyway ;-) ) Paul - -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/s0lgbKx5DBjWFdsRAgOIAJsHcPE58KMv6o2uTcnu5/HIETlt3ACgkLpZ RQ5yubmh2lsSSUMpBwxllzY= =TarQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
