Nicholas Bastin wrote:
> On May 6, 2005, at 3:17 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>
>>You've got that wrong: Python let's you choose UCS-4 -
>>UCS-2 is the default.
>
>
> No, that's not true. Python lets you choose UCS-4 or UCS-2. What the
> default is depends on your platform. If you run raw configure, some
> systems will choose UCS-4, and some will choose UCS-2. This is how the
> conversation came about in the first place - running ./configure on
> RHL9 gives you UCS-4.
Hmm, looking at the configure.in script, it seems you're right.
I wonder why this weird dependency on TCL was added. This was
certainly not intended (see the comment):
if test $enable_unicode = yes
then
# Without any arguments, Py_UNICODE defaults to two-byte mode
case "$have_ucs4_tcl" in
yes) enable_unicode="ucs4"
;;
*) enable_unicode="ucs2"
;;
esac
fi
The annotiation suggests that Martin added this.
Martin, could you please explain why the whole *Python system*
should depend on what Unicode type some installed *TCL system*
is using ? I fail to see the connection.
Thanks,
--
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