On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -On [20080702 19:08], Guido van Rossum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>I think we should continue to leave this up to the distribution. AFAIK >>many Linux distros already use UCS4 for everything anyway. > > FreeBSD's ports makes it a configure option. > >>For that reason I think it's also better that the configure script >>continues to default to UTF-16 -- this will give the UTF-16 support >>code the necessary exercise. (It is mostly a superset of the UCS-4 >>support code, so I'm less worried about the latter getting enough >>exercise.) > > I was under the impression that it was still UCS2 and thus limiting things > to the BMP only. So you are saying it's UTF-16 nowadays? For both 2.6 and > 3.0?
Yes. At least in the sense that \Uxxxxxxxx gets translated to a surrogate pair, and that the UTF-8 codec supports surrogate pairs in both directions. It's been like this for a long time. What else would you expect from UTF-16 support? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
