Message 117795 - Python tracker

Message117795

Author	stutzbach
Recipients	ezio.melotti, lemburg, stutzbach, theller, vstinner
Date	2010-10-01.13:01:39
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> You can tweak the Windows pyconfig.h to use UCS4, AFAIK, if you want to > test drive this case. I seem to recall seeing some other code that assumed Windows implied UCS2. Proceed with caution. ;-) > But it's probably easier to configure with "gcc -fshort-wchar" on > Linux :-) libc will still be using sizeof(wchar_t) == 4, though. Won't that cause Bad Things to happen when calling libc wide-character functions?

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> You can tweak the Windows pyconfig.h to use UCS4, AFAIK, if you want to
> test drive this case.

I seem to recall seeing some other code that assumed Windows implied UCS2.  Proceed with caution. ;-)

> But it's probably easier to configure with "gcc -fshort-wchar" on
> Linux :-)

libc will still be using sizeof(wchar_t) == 4, though.  Won't that cause Bad Things to happen when calling libc wide-character functions?

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