Aug. 31, 2010
8:32 a.m.
On 28 Aug, 2010, at 12:29, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
- wide-unicode: this is a tricky one. I'm tempted to say that the stable ABI should always use a Py_UNICODE that matches the platform's wchar_t. Alternative proposals are welcome.
Sizeof(wchar_t) is 4 on OSX, but the Apple frameworks use a 16-bit type to represent unicode codepoints (UniChar). Current builds on OSX use a 16-bit unicode type which makes it pretty cheap to convert strings from Python to a C array of UniChar. I'm therefore -1 on switching to a wide unicode build on OSX. Ronald