Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Nicholas Bastin wrote: > >>"This type represents the storage type which is used by Python >>internally as the basis for holding Unicode ordinals. Extension module >>developers should make no assumptions about the size of this type on >>any given platform." > > > But people want to know "Is Python's Unicode 16-bit or 32-bit?" > So the documentation should explicitly say "it depends".
On a related note, it would be help if the documentation provided a little more background on unicode encoding. Specifically, that UCS-2 is not the same as UTF-16, even though they're both two bytes wide and most of the characters are the same. UTF-16 can encode 4 byte characters, while UCS-2 can't. A Py_UNICODE is either UCS-2 or UCS-4. It took me quite some time to figure that out so I could produce a patch [1]_ for PyXPCOM that fixes its unicode support. .. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281156 Shane _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
