From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31531 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Nov 2003 09:05:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4105 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2003 09:05:38 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:05:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1068662803.18867.134.camel@huggins.eng.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1068662803.18867.134.camel@huggins.eng.cam.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311131005.36452.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] python-2.3.2 testing required X-Archives-Salt: f8801b26-4337-4bb7-b1c1-5df14cb59d36 X-Archives-Hash: c8ad58d89909a1b008d312de7f606e3c =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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=20 into a number of 2byte sequences. I think that is more than enough for=20 most cases (who needs to read/write cjk anyway ;-) ) Paul =2D --=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/s0lgbKx5DBjWFdsRAgOIAJsHcPE58KMv6o2uTcnu5/HIETlt3ACgkLpZ RQ5yubmh2lsSSUMpBwxllzY=3D =3DTarQ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list