June 27, 2010
10:53 a.m.
On 6/27/2010 5:48 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
Stefan Behnel wrote:
Greg Ewing, 26.06.2010 09:58:
Would there be any sanity in having an option to compile Python with UTF-8 as the internal string representation?
It would break Py_UNICODE, because the internal size of a unicode character would no longer be fixed.
It's not fixed anyway with the 2-char build -- some characters are represented using a pair of surrogates.
But isn't this currently ignored everywhere in python's code? Eric.