M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > It is important to be able to rely on a default that > is used when no special options are given. The decision > to use UCS2 or UCS4 is much too important to be > left to a configure script.
Should the choice be a runtime decision? I think it should be. That could mean two unicode types, a call similar to sys.setdefaultencoding(), a new unicode extension module, or something else. BTW, thanks for discussing these issues. I tried to write a patch to the unicode API documentation, but it's hard to know just what to write. I think I can say this: "sometimes your strings are UTF-16, so you're working with code units that are not necessarily complete code points; sometimes your strings are UCS4, so you're working with code units that are also complete code points. The choice between UTF-16 and UCS4 is made at the time the Python interpreter is compiled and the default choice varies by operating system and configuration." 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
