On 6/30/20 7:53 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Since the C world has adopted wchar_t for this purpose, it's the > natural choice.
I would disagree with this comment. Microsoft Windows has chosen to use 'wchar_t' for Unicode, because they adopted UCS-2 before it morphed into UTF-16 due to the expansion of Unicode above 16 bits. The *nix side of the world has chosen to use UTF-8 as the preferred way to store Unicode characters. Also, in Windows, wchar_t doesn't really meet the requirements for what C defines wchar_t to mean, as wchar_t is supposed to represent every character as a single unit, and thus would need to be at least a 21 bit type (typically, it would be a 32 bit type), but Windows makes it a 16 bit type due to ABIs being locked before the Unicode expansion. -- Richard Damon _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/TA2ITVZY6ZGH2Y42JAXD243RSG7MONTV/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
