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Re: [PATCH python-tests] gnu: python-2.7: Enable UCS-4 Unicode encoding.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH python-tests] gnu: python-2.7: Enable UCS-4 Unicode encoding. |
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Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:08:10 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Danny,
Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
>> > Otherwise LGTM. I checked some other distros and they seem to have
>> > this enabled. Thanks!
>> That means that strings are internally UCS-4-encoded, right?
>> What’s the rationale, and what happens when this flag is omitted?
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> The CPython C interface changes depending on the flag and some Python
> extensions don't work with the narrow UTF-16 Unicode - which is what
> it would use if you don't specify.
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> The default, UTF-16, is basically just historical baggage from when
> Unicode had fewer than 65536 codepoints in the standard.
[...]
Thanks for the explanation, it makes a lot of sense!
Ludo’.