Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Thomas Heller wrote: > > >>AFAIK, you can configure Python to use 16-bits or 32-bits Unicode chars, >>independend from the size of wchar_t. The HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T macro >>can be used by extension writers to determine if Py_UNICODE is the same as >>wchar_t. > > > note that "usable" is more than just "same size"; it also implies that > widechar > predicates (iswalnum etc) works properly with Unicode characters, under all > locales.
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