[Python-Dev] New Py_UNICODE doc
Nicholas Bastin
nbastin at opnet.com
Tue May 10 20:48:19 CEST 2005
On May 9, 2005, at 12:59 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Wow, what an inane way of looking at it. I don't know what world you
>> live in, but in my world, users read the configure options and suppose
>> that they mean something. In fact, they *have* to go off on their own
>> to assume something, because even the documentation you refer to above
>> doesn't say what happens if they choose UCS-2 or UCS-4. A logical
>> assumption would be that python would use those CEFs internally, and
>> that would be incorrect.
>
> Certainly. That's why the documentation should be improved. Changing
> the option breaks existing packaging systems, and should not be done
> lightly.
I'm perfectly happy to continue supporting --enable-unicode=ucs2, but
not displaying it as an option. Is that acceptable to you?
--
Nick
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