On 9/1/07, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> William,
>
> I noticed that the Python that comes with SAGE-2.8.3
> still has UCS2.
>
> Are you still considering changing to UCS4?

I forgot about all that.... so I've made this trac ticket #551:

 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/551

I hope it gets some discussion.

>
> Jaap
>
>
>
> On 8/14/07, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > See also
> >
> > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2006-July/006579.html
> >
> > for a discussion of Python and UCS2 vs. UCS4
> >
> > Ubuntu and Fedora distribute Python compiled with UCS4.
> > Maybe the Python version of SAGE should comply with the distribution,
> > so for example libboost_python can be used.
>
> I would definitely consider making this change, at least as long as nobody
> sees any major problems with it in the next few days.   One problem is
> that doing "sage -upgrade" will require rebuilding every Python-related thing
> i SAGE, which will be a bit painful.
>
> Anyway, comments?
> gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel
>   -- William
>
> >
>
>


-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://www.williamstein.org

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