Compile Python 3 interpreter to force 2-byte unicode

[nospam.nospam.Ned Batchelder]

On 11/25/17 5:05 PM, wojtek.mula at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally
> uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 65535:
>
>    import sys
>    print sys.maxunicode
>
> This is enabled in Windows, but I want the same in Linux.
> What options have I pass to the configure script?
>

You say you want Python 3, but you also say you have maxunicode == 65535 on
Windows.â  That must be Python 2.â  Python 3 always has maxunicode == 1114111.

Can you say more about what you need to do?

--Ned.