Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>> > Otherwise LGTM. I checked some other distros and they seem to have >> > this enabled. Thanks! >> That means that strings are internally UCS-4-encoded, right? >> What’s the rationale, and what happens when this flag is omitted? > > The CPython C interface changes depending on the flag and some Python > extensions don't work with the narrow UTF-16 Unicode - which is what > it would use if you don't specify. > > The default, UTF-16, is basically just historical baggage from when > Unicode had fewer than 65536 codepoints in the standard. [...] Thanks for the explanation, it makes a lot of sense! Ludo’.
