[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

[Uche Ogbuji]

> > Can you confirm that this is what RedHat does by default as mentioned
> > Uche and do you know the motivations (and eventually downsides) for this
> > decision?
> 
>   By default Red Hat compiles python with unicode support in UTF-16.
> I'm not in charge of this, I assume it's the default compilation option.

Not from what we found.  Jeremy was the one who encountered this, not me, but 
I'm pretty sure he said he found that starting with RH 7.3, Red Hat started 
building Python 2.x with UTF-32 and whchar_t support.


> IMHO it's a wrong assumption to think that UTF16 is a good cut, because
> you end up with variable lenght encoding anyway, and UCS32 would seriously
> bloat the app I'm afraid.

Just as a side observation: Guido called this FUD.  I'm not so sure.


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