Message 135369 - Python tracker

Message135369

Author	loewis
Recipients	dcoles, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2011-05-06.21:24:54
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I think what they mean is a better representation from an Android API, such as UChar32 from utils/AndroidUnicode.h. I agree that it's not worthwhile trying to port Python to those Android versions that have a single-byte wchar_t definition. David, I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T: It does not specify whether wchar_t can be used. Instead, it specifies whether wchar_t can be used as the datatype for Py_UNICODE. Calling it HAVE_A_WCHAR_T_DEFINITION_THAT_IS_SUITABLE_FOR_USE_AS_BASE_TYPE_OF_PY_UNICODE was just a little too tedious :-)

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I think what they mean is a better representation from an Android API, such as UChar32 from utils/AndroidUnicode.h.

I agree that it's not worthwhile trying to port Python to those Android versions that have a single-byte wchar_t definition. 

David, I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T: It does *not* specify whether wchar_t can be used. Instead, it specifies whether wchar_t can be used as the datatype for Py_UNICODE. Calling it HAVE_A_WCHAR_T_DEFINITION_THAT_IS_SUITABLE_FOR_USE_AS_BASE_TYPE_OF_PY_UNICODE was just a little too tedious :-)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-05-06 21:24:55	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, lemburg, pitrou, vstinner, dcoles
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