[Python-3000] PEP Draft: Enhancing the buffer protcol
Travis Oliphant
oliphant at ee.byu.edu
Wed Feb 28 21:28:12 CET 2007
Josiah Carlson wrote:
>Travis Oliphant <oliphant.travis at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>
>>I think you are right. In the discussions for unifying string/unicode I
>>really like the proposals that are leaning toward having a unicode
>>object be an immutable string of either ucs-1, ucs-2, or ucs-4 depending
>>on what is in the string.
>>
>>
>
>Except that its not going to happen. The width of the unicode
>representation is going to be fixed at compile time, generally utf-16 or
>ucs-4.
>
Are you sure about this? Guido was still talking about the
multiple-version representation at PyCon a few days ago.
-Travis
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