July 1, 2001
9:36 p.m.
Just van Rossum <just@letterror.com>:
My difficulty with PEP 261 is that I'm afraid few people will actually enable 32-bit support (*what*?! all unicode strings become 32 bits wide? no way!), therefore making programs non-portable in very subtle ways.
I agree. This can only be a stopgap measure. Ultimately the Unicode type needs to be made smarter. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+