Am 07.09.2010 19:46, schrieb M.-A. Lemburg: > "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >>> -1 on always using wchar_t as well. Python's default is UCS2 and the >>> stable ABI should not change that. >> >> It's not really Python's default. It is what configure.in does by >> default. Python's default, on Linux, is UCS-4. > > No, the default is UCS2 on all platforms and in configure.in. > > configure.in only uses UCS4 if it finds a TCL installation that > happens to use UCS4 - for some reason I don't know :-) > > However, most Linux distros and more recently also some BSDs > have switched over to using UCS4 for their distribution versions > of Python.
Hmm. So UCS4 *is* the default for Linux. The default on the system is not what Python's configure makes it, but what the system vendors make it - they are the ones making the system, after all. 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
