[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:48:53PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> > Is the plan that Python will eventually be UCS-4 only?
> 
> Eventually, yes, but this can take some time -- cheaper memory,
> faster machines, etc. For now we have the compile time option
> and since RedHat chose to activate it, there's a good chance
> that we'll get forced to do the same sooner rather than
> later ;-)

  Just in case my post was missed about it, this not the case
for the upcoming release apparently:

gnome:~ -> python
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Aug 30 2002, 12:15:30) 
[GCC 3.2 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.2-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.maxunicode
65535
>>> 
gnome:~ -> 

  I would rather suggest people stabilize their APIs and provide the
correct wrappers to an unified view of character counting independant
of the specificty of the underlying in-memory representation,
especially if the Windows port of python depends on Windows character
representation (UTF16).

Daniel

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