[Python-3000] Is the --enable-unicode configure arg going anywhere?

[Guido van Rossum]

I don't know exactly what that option does; it won't be possible to
disable unicode in 3.0, but I fully plan to continue supporting both
2-byte and 4-byte storage. 4-byte storage is broken on OSX it ought to
be fixed (unless it's a platform policy not to support it, as appears
to be the case on Windows).

--Guido

On 6/1/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> I vaguely remember a discussion about the str/unicode unification and
> whether there was going to be standardization on the internal representation
> of Unicode or not.  I don't remember the outcome, but I am curious as to
> whether it will lead to the removal of --enable-unicode or not.
>
> Reason I ask is that the OS X extension modules do not like it when you
> compile with UCS-4 (see http://www.python.org/sf/763708).  If the option is
> not going to go away I am going to try to lean on someone to address this as
> Unicode is obviously going to play a bigger role in Python come 3.0.
>
> -Brett
>
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