Todd Whiteman wrote:
>  lekma wrote:
> > while I agree that on windows and mac it makes sense to build the
> > pyxpcom extension  using ucs2, it seems that most linux distro (at
> > least the five i checked: debian, redhat, ubuntu, suse, gentoo) ship a
> > python build in ucs4, so maybe for linux ucs4 should be the default.
> >   
>  
>  I'm still undecided which of ucs2 or ucs4 is better for the linux 
>  platform. Yes, it seems most of the linux distros are using ucs4 builds 
>  of python, so ucs4 could make it easier to support python binary modules 
>  on linux. I'd be interested to know if anyone has had some experience in 
>  this area?

One thing that should be considered, the Mozilla code base itself is 
UCS2 (actually UTF-16).  If Python uses UCS4, then every xpcom call that 
passes wstring in the IDL will do a string conversion.  The more 
efficient approach is UCS2 if python is included as part of the extension.

Shane
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