Re: Python and Unicode (was Re: Three new Technical Notes posted)

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@nic.fr)
Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 05:10:27 EST

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    On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 03:10:02PM +0900,
     Jungshik Shin <jshin@mailaps.org> wrote
     a message of 20 lines which said:

    > I was a bit surprised to find that Python was listed as using UTF-16
    > (for the internal representation)

    Indeed, this is wrong, it is a compilation option. Here is the output
    of the configure script of the last version of Python:

    ~/tmp/python2.3 % ./configure --help | grep -i unicode
      --enable-unicode[=ucs[24]]
                              Enable Unicode strings (default is yes)

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