<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Guido van Rossum</b> <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org">guido@python.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't know exactly what that option does;</blockquote><div><br>It specifies how Unicode is stored internally in the interpreter (I believe). <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
it won't be possible to<br>disable unicode in 3.0, but I fully plan to continue supporting both<br>2-byte and 4-byte storage. 4-byte storage is broken on OSX it ought to<br>be fixed (unless it's a platform policy not to support it, as appears
<br>to be the case on Windows).</blockquote><div><br>It's broken in the Mac extension modules that are auto-generated. Otherwise it's fine.<br><br>-Brett<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
--Guido<br><br>On 6/1/07, Brett Cannon <<a href="mailto:brett@python.org">brett@python.org</a>> wrote:<br>> I vaguely remember a discussion about the str/unicode unification and<br>> whether there was going to be standardization on the internal representation
<br>> of Unicode or not. I don't remember the outcome, but I am curious as to<br>> whether it will lead to the removal of --enable-unicode or not.<br>><br>> Reason I ask is that the OS X extension modules do not like it when you
<br>> compile with UCS-4 (see <a href="http://www.python.org/sf/763708">http://www.python.org/sf/763708</a>). If the option is<br>> not going to go away I am going to try to lean on someone to address this as<br>> Unicode is obviously going to play a bigger role in Python come
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