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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Sep 29 04🔞25 CEST 2009

James Y Knight wrote:

On Sep 28, 2009, at 4:25 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Distributions should really not be put in charge of upstream coding design decisions. I don't think you can blame distros for this one.... From PEP 0261: It is also proposed that one day --enable-unicode will just default to the width of your platforms wchart. On linux, wchart is 4 bytes. If there's a consensus amongst python upstream that all the distros should be shipping Python with UCS2 unicode strings, you should reach out to them and say this, in a rather more clear fashion. Currently, most signs point towards UCS4 builds as being the better option.

There is no such consensus. Linux distributions really should build Python in UCS-4 mode, and I would be in favor of making it the default to match wchar_t.

Regards, Martin

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