[Python-Dev] please consider changing --enable-unicode default to ucs4

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> For information, all Mandriva versions I've used until now have had their
> Python's built with UCS2 (maxunicode == 65535).

By the way, I was investigating this, and discovered an issue on the
Mandriva tracker which suggests that they intend to switch to UCS4 in
the next release in order to avoid compatibility problems like these.
(Not because they think that UCS4 is better than UCS2.)

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=48570

Regards,

Zooko