M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > All this talk about UTF-16 vs. UCS-2 is not very useful > and strikes me a purely academic. > > The reference to possibly breakage by slicing a Unicode and > breaking a surrogate pair is valid, the idea of UCS-4 being > less prone to breakage is a myth:
Fair enough. The original point is that the documentation is unclear about what a Py_UNICODE[] contains. I deduced that it contains either UCS2 or UCS4 and implemented accordingly. Not only did I guess wrong, but others will probably guess wrong too. Something in the docs needs to spell this out. Shane _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
