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[Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion

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Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Greg Ewing, 26.06.2010 09:58:
> 
>> Would there be any sanity in having an option to compile
>> Python with UTF-8 as the internal string representation?
> 
> It would break Py_UNICODE, because the internal size of a unicode 
> character would no longer be fixed.

It's not fixed anyway with the 2-char build -- some
characters are represented using a pair of surrogates.

-- 
Greg

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