I don't know exactly what that option does; it won't be possible to disable unicode in 3.0, but I fully plan to continue supporting both 2-byte and 4-byte storage. 4-byte storage is broken on OSX it ought to be fixed (unless it's a platform policy not to support it, as appears to be the case on Windows).
--Guido On 6/1/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I vaguely remember a discussion about the str/unicode unification and > whether there was going to be standardization on the internal representation > of Unicode or not. I don't remember the outcome, but I am curious as to > whether it will lead to the removal of --enable-unicode or not. > > Reason I ask is that the OS X extension modules do not like it when you > compile with UCS-4 (see http://www.python.org/sf/763708). If the option is > not going to go away I am going to try to lean on someone to address this as > Unicode is obviously going to play a bigger role in Python come 3.0. > > -Brett > > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > Python-3000@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org > > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
