[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins]python/dist/src/Objects unicodeobject.c, 2.197, 2.198 (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Sun Sep 21 19:02:24 EDT 2003

[Tim]

I don't know why Martin favors wchart when possible. The answer to that isn't clear.

[Martin v. Löwis]

If the wchart is "usable", some routines (notably PUAsWideChar) are slightly more efficient, so I'd like to make wchart "usable" as much as possible.

OK. So is there an end to this thread <0.9 wink>? At the moment, it appears there's no identified reason to care about signedness of a greater-than 16-bit type, good reason to insist that a 16-bit type is unsigned, and that it's desirable for HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T to get defined when possible. What more does it take to bury this? If it's Unixish config chagnes, they won't be coming from me (the Windows build uses an unsigned 16-bit wchar_t).

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