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Author	vstinner
Recipients	ezio.melotti, lemburg, stutzbach, theller, vstinner
Date	2010-10-02.15:29:09
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> Since this was a bugfix, it should be merged back into 2.7, yes? Mmmh, the fix requires to change PyUnicode_AsWideChar() function (support non-BMP characters and surrogate pairs) (and maybe also to create PyUnicode_AsWideCharString()). I don't really want to change such important function in a stable branch (Python2). Is it really important to support non-BMP characters for ctypes.c_wchar in Python2? I would like to say: if you want better unicode support, use Python 3. And Python 3.2 if it's possible :-)

> Since this was a bugfix, it should be merged back into 2.7, yes?

Mmmh, the fix requires to change PyUnicode_AsWideChar() function (support non-BMP characters and surrogate pairs) (and maybe also to create PyUnicode_AsWideCharString()). I don't really want to change such important function in a stable branch (Python2).

Is it really important to support non-BMP characters for ctypes.c_wchar in Python2? I would like to say: if you want better unicode support, use Python 3. And Python 3.2 if it's possible :-)

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Date	User	Action	Args
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