[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

[Martin v. Loewis]

Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:

> Having gone through this thread in the archives, I don't want to open it
> again :-)... OTH, would it really be an option to say that feature X or
> Y of PyXML (if such a library was added at some point) would require an
> interpreter compiled for 32-bit character representation to be
> compliant? 

Yes, that's a reasonable option.

> Assumining that all the common distributions are shiped
> compiled for 16-bit (like the Debian sid on which I am doing these
> tests), it would become a real nightmare for the users!

No, it wouldn't. Users' don't care about non-BMP characters.

Regards,
Martin