Python 2.5 Schedule

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Mar 19 10:11:09 EST 2006


Pekka Niiranen wrote:
> what I would like to see in (www.python.org) is
> Windows installation package (*.msi)
> compiled with option "--enable-unicode=ucs4".
> See http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/06/15/py-xml.html

Just enabling that option is not enough: the resulting
binary likely crashes. In addition to changing the
type of Py_UNICODE, you also need change all calls to
Microsoft API that expects UCS-2 (i.e. all *W API).

Contributions are welcome.

Regards,
Martin



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