[Python-Dev] please consider changing --enable-unicode default to ucs4 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Sep 20 21:27:06 CEST 2009

Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:

I'm sorry, I should have mentioned that I did read those archives before I posted my letter. That discussion was all about whether UCS2 or UCS4 is better. I consider that question to be mostly irrelevant to this issue, which is about compatibility for people who don't choose to configure that setting themselves.

You surely must have missed the sentence

"For that reason I think it's also better that the configure script continues to default to UTF-16 -- this will give the UTF-16 support code the necessary exercise."

This is effectively a BDFL pronouncement. Nothing has changed the validity of the premise of the statement, so the conclusion remains valid, as well.

Regards, Martin

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