Build problem with unicode and 2.1

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:18:33 -0700, David P Grote <dpgrote at lbl.gov> pisze:

> The Py_UNICODE type is required to be a 16-bit long, unsigned int.

BTW, why is this? In Unicode 3.1 characters have numbers in the range
U+0000..U+10FFFF.

There is UTF-16 which encodes characters above U+FFFF as pairs
of words, but it's not a natural representation of characters -
character codes have non-uniform lengths, as in UTF-8.

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