Python incompatibility

[Jeff Pitman]

On 11/20/05, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
>
> > The use of 4byte UTF has come in handy for me a number of times,
> > without it you can't handle characters outside of the BMP, this really
> > should be the default upstream.
>
> Possibly this should be taken upstream instead of simply changed in Fedora
> then, so the change is synchronised?
>

I'm not sure what change you're looking for, but, going forward it's ucs4.
Some cursory searches about the issue show that Tcl/Tk needs it and xml
processing stuff recommend it. If you want to provide binary extensions,
notice that the mx folks provide an RPM for the UCS2 build and one for the
UCS4 build. Not sure if Mihai will see this thread, but, I do remember
discussing this in length with him at one point. IIRC, it's not fixed
upstream because of some serious performance hits dealing with it and the
BDFL, et al. didn't want to go there. More searches required to dig this
up...

--
-jeff
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