[Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jun 27 11:48:22 CEST 2010


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 PyUNICODE, 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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