On May 9, 2005, at 12:59 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Wow, what an inane way of looking at it. I don't know what world you >> live in, but in my world, users read the configure options and suppose >> that they mean something. In fact, they *have* to go off on their own >> to assume something, because even the documentation you refer to above >> doesn't say what happens if they choose UCS-2 or UCS-4. A logical >> assumption would be that python would use those CEFs internally, and >> that would be incorrect. > > Certainly. That's why the documentation should be improved. Changing > the option breaks existing packaging systems, and should not be done > lightly.
I'm perfectly happy to continue supporting --enable-unicode=ucs2, but not displaying it as an option. Is that acceptable to you? -- Nick _______________________________________________ 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
