[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project

[Ethan Furman]

Terry Reedy wrote:
>> PEP-393 provides support of the full Unicode charset (U+0000-U+10FFFF)
>> an all platforms with a small memory footprint and only O(1) functions.
> 
> For Windows users, I believe it will nearly double the memory footprint 
> if there are any non-BMP chars. On my new machine, I should not mind 
> that in exchange for correct behavior.
> 

+1

Heck, I wouldn't mind it on my /old/ machine in exchange for correct 
behavior!

~Ethan~