Martin v. Löwis wrote:
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
No question there, but wouldn't it be easier to test such a platform and then fallback to "unigned int" in case wchar_t is found to be a signed value ?
Why is it important that Py_UNICODE is unsigned?
Because that's what was used as basis in the type implementation as well as the codecs (internal and external). Comparisons simply work differently when you're using a signed type which is also why most compilers warn about this -- but you know that. An signed type also doesn't make much sense for things like character storage -- the sign information is useless and you lose a bit for each character. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Software directly from the Source (#1, Sep 18 2003)
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