[Python-Dev] Allowing Unicode literals even without Unicode support?

[Martin v. Loewis]

Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> writes:

> I'm not sure what to do about this.

I think adding charmap_encode in disable-unicode builds would be the
acceptable.

> 2) Some library modules just don't seem to function without unicode.
> Current bad boys seem to include gettext, urllib (well, this just got
> fixed I think), minidom, pyexpat and the email package.  I could
> imagine the xml modules and the email package just plain not being
> supported w/o unicode.  gettext, too, I guess.

True.

Regards,
Martin