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

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Sun Sep 20 16:06:53 CEST 2009

2009/9/20 Zooko O'Whielacronx <zookog at gmail.com>:

Dear Pythonistas:

This issue causes serious problems.  Users occasionally get binaries built for a compatible Linux and Python version but with a different UCS2-vs-UCS4 setting, and those users get mysterious memory corruption errors which are hard to diagnose.  It is possible that these situations also open up security vulnerabilities.  A couple such instances are documented on http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue78, but you can find more by googling. I would like to get this problem fixed!

You may want to have a look at the archives of the last time this was extensively discussed: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-July/080886.html

-- Regards, Benjamin

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