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

From: jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com
Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 06:04:33 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)

    I'm more confused now... if it is an option but the default for the option is yes,
    isn'it equal to it being on by default? (And what does 'yes' mean? ucs2?)

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