[Python-Dev] New Py_UNICODE doc

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat May 7 20:33:02 CEST 2005


Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Py_UNICODE would always be 32 bits wide.

This would break PythonWin, which relies on Py_UNICODE being
the same as WCHAR_T. PythonWin is not broken, it just hasn't
been ported to UCS-4, yet (and porting this is difficult and
will cause a performance loss).

Regards,
Martin




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