IIRC, there were two builds- 16 and 32 bit Unicode. But it wasn’t UTF16, it
was UCS-2.

-CHB


On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 11:32 AM Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On 25 May 2022, at 10:16, Stephen J. Turnbull <
> stephenjturnb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  This is much
> > better than the pre-PEP-393 situation (where the unicode type was
> > UTF-16,
>
> Only on Windows right? mac and Linux did not do this, at least with the
> bullds
> I have used for python 2.7.
>
> Barry
>
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