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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] python-2.3.2-r2 changes
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 21:08:22
Message-Id: 20031122210820.GD17515@time
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] python-2.3.2-r2 changes by Alastair Tse
1 LiquidX wrote: [Sat Nov 22 2003, 10:11:32AM EST]
2 > This is just a heads up to people testing python-2.3.2 in portage.
3 > After some persuasion, I've decided to make UCS4 the default unicode
4 > implementation starting from python-2.3.2-r2. That means if you were
5 > testing 2.3.2-r1, you will need to re-run python-updater so it fixes the
6 > missing PyUnicodeUCS2_* symbols in certain modules.
7
8 Could you give a quick run-down on the difference between UCS2 and UCS4
9 and what this change buys us? If it's been discussed in a thread which
10 I missed, a pointer to the archived thread would be sufficient.
11
12 Thanks,
13 Aron
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16 Aron Griffis
17 Gentoo Linux Developer (alpha / ia64 / ruby / vim)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] python-2.3.2-r2 changes Alastair Tse <liquidx@g.o>