On 11/20/05, Mike Hearn <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The copy of Python 2.4 shipped with Fedora Core 4 is configured to use > 4-byte unicode instead of 2-byte, which is the upstream default. Modifying > this changes the exported API of libpython and breaks compatibility with > other distributions which is, needless to say, a Very Bad Thing. > > Does anybody know why this is done? Is there any chance of fixing this > with a future version of the Python packages? It's a binary incompatible change, not a source incompatible one, right? There is no promise that you can run binaries made on another distro. The use of 4byte UTF has come in handy for me a number of times, without it you can't handle characters outside of the BMP, this really should be the default upstream. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
