unicode converting

[Serge Orlov]

Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2005 02:53:12 -0800, rumours say that "Serge Orlov"
> <Serge.Orlov at gmail.com> might have written:
>
> >3) There is a note in README: To compile
> >Python2.3 with Tkinter, you will need to pass --enable-unicode=ucs4
> >flag to ./configure
>
> I thought this applied to Tkinter as pre-built on recent RedHat
> systems. Does it also apply to FreeBSD?

I don't know. I didn't notice that it was about RedHat.

> On Windoze, Mandrake and SuSE python has UCS-2
> unicode and Tkinter is working just fine.

Did you build python on Mandrake and SuSE yourself? I had an impression
that ucs-4 builds are prefered on Linux. At least python on RedHat EL3
and SUSE ES9 is built with --enable-unicode=ucs4.

  Serge.