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

Zooko O'Whielacronx zookog at gmail.com
Sun Sep 20 16:16:01 CEST 2009

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. Platforms or people who prefer UCS2 will continue to use it as appropriate. UCS4 is clearly good enough for the vast majority of Linux users, and having fewer mysterious segfaults and potential security vulnerabilities would be an important improvement to the user experience of Python on Linux.

I should mention that the reason I'm spending time on this right now is that it is currently blocking me from being able to distribute binaries of Python packages which will work for all of my Linux users.

Regards,

Zooko

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