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Author lemburg
Recipients ezio.melotti, lemburg, stutzbach, theller, vstinner
Date 2010-10-01.12:46:53
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STINNER Victor wrote:
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> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
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> I don't know how to test "if Py_UNICODE_SIZE == 4 && SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 2". On Windows, sizeof(wchar_t) is 2, but it looks like Python is not prepared to have Py_UNICODE != wchar_t for is Windows implementation.
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> wchar_t is 32 bits long on Linux and Mac OS X. So how can I test it? Or should we just drop support of "Py_UNICODE_SIZE == 4 && SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 2"?

You can tweak the Windows pyconfig.h to use UCS4, AFAIK, if you want to
test drive this case.

But it's probably easier to configure with "gcc -fshort-wchar" on
Linux :-)

Dropping support for this is not a good idea.
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