[Python-Dev] Support for "wide" Unicode characters

[Greg Ewing]

> It so happened that the Unicode support was written to make it very
> easy to change the compile-time code unit size

What about extension modules that deal with Unicode strings?
Will they have to be recompiled too? If so, is there anything
to detect an attempt to import an extension module with an
incompatible Unicode character width?

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