Re: [gentoo-dev] python-2.3.2 testing required

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday 12 November 2003 19:46, Alastair Tse wrote:
> UCS4 uses significantly more memory than UCS2. For those who are not
> familiar with unicode, UCS2 means representing unicode characters with
> 16 bit words and UCS4 means representing unicode characters in 32 bit
> words. Not that both Redhat (>9) and Debian (unstable) have python-2.3
> compiled with UCS4 by default.
>
> Currently, you get UCS4 if you have "cjk" in your USE flags because
> the only language to use the extra pane in UCS4 are CJK langauges.
> I've been using UCS4 for a while now and it works without any
> problems.
>

Isn't it true that it is possible to to encode the few 4 byte characters 
into a number of 2byte sequences. I think that is more than enough for 
most cases (who needs to read/write cjk anyway ;-) )

Paul

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