On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 17:39:16 +0100
"M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote:
> 
> They should not use Py_UNICODE.
> 
> wchar_t is standard C and is in wide spread use in C code for
> storing Unicode data.

Do you have any data points about "wide spread use"?

I work in C++ daily and don't see any "wide spread use" of wchar_t (or
its C++ cousin std::wstring). Modern APIs assume bytestrings and UTF-8
encoding.

Regards

Antoine.

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