-On [20080702 19:08], Guido van Rossum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I think we should continue to leave this up to the distribution. AFAIK >many Linux distros already use UCS4 for everything anyway.
FreeBSD's ports makes it a configure option. >For that reason I think it's also better that the configure script >continues to default to UTF-16 -- this will give the UTF-16 support >code the necessary exercise. (It is mostly a superset of the UCS-4 >support code, so I'm less worried about the latter getting enough >exercise.) I was under the impression that it was still UCS2 and thus limiting things to the BMP only. So you are saying it's UTF-16 nowadays? For both 2.6 and 3.0? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ | GPG: 2EAC625B Nature does nothing uselessly... _______________________________________________ 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
