Am 07.09.2010 19:46, schrieb M.-A. Lemburg:
"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
-1 on always using wchar_t as well. Python's default is UCS2 and the stable ABI should not change that.
It's not really Python's default. It is what configure.in does by default. Python's default, on Linux, is UCS-4.
No, the default is UCS2 on all platforms and in configure.in.
configure.in only uses UCS4 if it finds a TCL installation that happens to use UCS4 - for some reason I don't know :-)
However, most Linux distros and more recently also some BSDs have switched over to using UCS4 for their distribution versions of Python.
Hmm. So UCS4 *is* the default for Linux. The default on the system is not what Python's configure makes it, but what the system vendors make it - they are the ones making the system, after all. Regards, Martin