[Python-Dev] Removing Non-Unicode Support?

[Georg Brandl]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> Note that I'm not saying that these switches are useless - of
> course they do allow to strip down the Python interpreter.
> I believe that only very few people are interested in having these
> options and it's fair enough to put the burden of maintaining these
> branches on them.

Which is proven by the fact that many tests fail without unicode.

So at least the people building --without-unicode don't care much about
brokenness.

Georg