[issue12010] Compile fails when sizeof(wchar_t) == 1

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

>From the document you posted:

"""
As documented, the Android platform did not really support wchar_t until
Android 2.3. What this means in practical terms is that:

  - If you target platform android-9 or higher, the size of wchar_t is
    4 bytes, and most wide-char functions are available in the C library
    (with the exception of multi-byte encoding/decoding functions and
     wsprintf/wsscanf).

  - If you target any prior API level, the size of wchar_t will be 1 byte
    and none of the wide-char functions will work anyway.

We recommend any developer to get rid of any dependencies on the wchar_t type
and switch to better representations. The support provided in Android is only
there to help you migrate existing code.
"""

With none of the wide-char functions working in Android <2.3, I don't
think you have a good chance of getting Python 3.x working, unless
you remove all their uses in the code and replace them with standard
char* functions.

The last paragraph doesn't sound very promising either. I wonder
what they mean with "better representation". The C standard doesn't
have any better representation for Unicode at the moment.

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