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Author amaury.forgeotdarc
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, bupjae, ezio.melotti, lemburg, vstinner
Date 2009-02-03.13:50:11
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> That would cause major breakage in the C API 

Not if you recompile. I don't see how this breaks the API at the C level.

> and is not inline with the intention of having a Py_UNICODE 
> type in the first place.

Py_UNICODE is still used as the allocation unit for unicode strings.

To get correct results, we need a way to access the whole unicode
database even on ucs2 builds; it's possible with the unicodedata module,
why not from C?

My motivation for the change is this post:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-July/080900.html
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Date User Action Args
2009-02-03 13:50:13amaury.forgeotdarcsetrecipients: + amaury.forgeotdarc, lemburg, vstinner, ezio.melotti, bupjae
2009-02-03 13:50:13amaury.forgeotdarcsetmessageid: <1233669013.15.0.414055262607.issue5127@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-02-03 13:50:11amaury.forgeotdarclinkissue5127 messages
2009-02-03 13:50:11amaury.forgeotdarccreate