[Pyrex] [Cython] Python 3

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Apr 29, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
> Greg Ewing schrieb:
>> Thanks, I didn't know that.
>>
>> So it seems that we could, if it were considered desirable,
>> have an automatic cast from unicode to char *. But the encoding
>> would *have* to be utf8 -- anything else would require memory
>> allocation.
>
> You're welcome! :)
>
> The UTF-8 default encoding is hard coded in Python 3.0. IMHO it's the
> most sensible encoding for users from the Western world. Asian users
> would probably prefer UTF-16 but that's a waste of memory for the
> rest.

Yes. Even ignoring memory concerns, UTF-8 plays much nicer with unix/
other tools that are not unicode-aware.

> In my opinion wchar_t support is much more important than casting
> PyUnicode objects to char*. Especially Windows developers need wchar_t
> for the wide Windows API. Python 2.6 and 3.0 have dropped support for
> the Windows 9x/ME/NT series. Only 2k SP4 and newer are supported.
> wchar_t support is an important step for the poor souls ... err
> Windows
> developers. ;)

I'm curious what you mean by wchar_t support--one can typedef wchar_t
to be an integer type. Or perhaps you mean something more...

- Robert

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