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Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
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> Daniel Stutzbach <daniel@stutzbachenterprises.com> added the comment:
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>> You can tweak the Windows pyconfig.h to use UCS4, AFAIK, if you want to
>> test drive this case.
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> I seem to recall seeing some other code that assumed Windows implied UCS2. Proceed with caution. ;-)
Probably, yes. I've never tried it myself.
>> But it's probably easier to configure with "gcc -fshort-wchar" on
>> Linux :-)
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> libc will still be using sizeof(wchar_t) == 4, though. Won't that cause Bad Things to happen when calling libc wide-character functions?
Sure, but this is just about testing an interface, not running
applications :-)
Here's what the GCC man-page has to say:
 -fshort-wchar
 Override the underlying type for wchar_t to be short unsigned int instead
 of the default for the target. This option is useful for building
 programs to run under WINE.
 Warning: the -fshort-wchar switch causes GCC to generate code that is not
 binary compatible with code generated without that switch. Use it to
 conform to a non-default application binary interface.