On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 11/25/2017 5:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:05 AM, <wojtek.m...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally >>> uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 65535: >>> >>> import sys >>> print sys.maxunicode >>> >>> This is enabled in Windows, but I want the same in Linux. >>> What options have I pass to the configure script? > > > You must be trying to compile 2.7. There may be Linux distributions that > compile this way. If you want to use, or ever encounter, non-BMP chars, > using surrogate pairs is problematical. By my reading of the official UCS-2 > docs, Python's old 16-bit unicode implementation is not fully compliant. > Others have claimed that is it not a UCS-2 implementation.
See subject line. OP wishes to compile Python 3 (and almost certainly not 3.1 or 3.2) with the bugginess of Python 2's narrow builds. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
