M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 2008-07-03 19:44, Terry Reedy wrote: >> The premise of this thread seems to be that the majority should suffer >> for the benefit of a few. That is not Python's philosophy. > > In reality, most Unixes ship with UCS4 builds of Python. Windows > and Mac OS X ship with UCS2 builds. Still, anyone is free to build > their own favorite version - that's freedom of choice, which is good. > > Programmers just need to be made aware of the differences in UCS2 > and UCS4 builds and deal with it. > > Here's talk I've given many many times over the years which explains > some of the details that a Python programmer needs to know when dealing > with Unicode: > > http://www.egenix.com/files/python/PyConUK2007-Developing-Unicode-aware-applications-in-Python.pdf > > > Perhaps I should add a section on UCS2 vs. UCS4 the next time around ;-) > The indications are that would be helpful to many people (including myself). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/
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