Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 7 Oct, 2009, at 20:05, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> >> If we do go for a change, we should use sizeof(wchar_t) >> as basis for the new default - on all platforms that >> provide a wchar_t type. > > I'd be -1 on that. Sizeof(wchar_t) is 4 on OSX, but all non-Unix API's > that deal with Unicode text use ucs16.
Is that true for non-Carbon APIs as well ? This is what I found on the web (in summary): Apple chose to go with UTF-16 at about the same time as Microsoft did and used sizeof(wchar_t) == 2 for Mac OS. When they moved to Mac OS X, they switched wchar_t to sizeof(wchar_t) == 4. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 07 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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
