[Python-Dev] AIX shared library support

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Bill Tutt wrote:
> 
> MAL:
> > Bill:
> > > Just as an FYI, the only problem I've found so far with my last patch
> was
> > > wrt handling Unicode characters with values in the UCS-4 code space.
> (Not
> > > that there are any yet, but the code must handle that case anyway, sine
> I
> > > don't want to have to go change it later.)
> 
> > Why is there a problem there ? Python currently uses UTF16
> > as native format. UTF-16 surrogates are not supported though...
> > and probably won't be for a while.
> 
> The rest of Python may not care about UTF-16, but that's no particular
> reason to not have this code support generating surrogates if an input
> UnicodeData.txt happens to have character names for code points that require
> surrogates.

True. As long as the design permitts generating surrogates,
there should be no problem.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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