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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Jun 1 08:05:16 CEST 2007


> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Does this still include the possibility of switching between 1-, 2- and
> 4-byte storage internally? I think you mentioned this in your Google
> talk and I thought it was a very good compromise - and much better
> than a compile-time switch.

In the current py3k-struni branch, it's still a compile time option.
I doubt that will change unless somebody contributes code to make it
change. The current compile-time option is between 2-byte and 4-byte
representation; 1-byte representation is not supported.

Regards,
Martin


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