[Python-ideas] UCS2 vs UCS4 ABIs

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

Please see also this thread:

http://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg42272.html

This is a complementary proposal: that the Python devs should  
encourage the Linux distributors to converge on a common UCS2/4  
choice.  If the ABI improvement that you suggest is not adopted, then  
my proposal will help users.  If the ABI improvement that you suggest  
is adopted, then my proposal will still help users.

Likewise with the proposal to include the UCS2/4 configuration in the  
platform description on Linux: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/ 
issue78 .  If that proposal is not implemented, then my proposal will  
help users.  If setuptools issue78 is implemented, then my proposal  
will still help users.

Regards,

Zooko