James Y Knight wrote: > On Sep 28, 2009, at 4:25 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Distributions should really not be put in charge of upstream >> coding design decisions. > > I don't think you can blame distros for this one.... > > From PEP 0261: > It is also proposed that one day --enable-unicode will just > default to the width of your platforms wchar_t. > > On linux, wchar_t is 4 bytes. > > If there's a consensus amongst python upstream that all the distros > should be shipping Python with UCS2 unicode strings, you should reach > out to them and say this, in a rather more clear fashion. Currently, > most signs point towards UCS4 builds as being the better option.
There is no such consensus. Linux distributions really should build Python in UCS-4 mode, and I would be in favor of making it the default to match wchar_t. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
