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Author	skrah
Recipients	loewis, ncoghlan, ronaldoussoren, skrah, teoliphant
Date	2012-08-16.12:25:03
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
In-reply-to	<[email protected]>

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Martin v. L??wis <[email protected]> wrote: > #15035 indicates that there is a need for UCS-2 arrays, using 'u' arrays was technically incorrect, since it is based on Py_UNICODE, whereas the API in question uses UniChar (which apparently is a two-byte type). Right, thanks for clearing that up. Then #15035 would indeed support deprecating 'u' and 'w' and moving on to UCS2 and UCS4 arrays.

Martin v. L??wis <[email protected]> wrote:
> #15035 indicates that there is a need for UCS-2 arrays, using 'u' arrays was technically incorrect, since it is based on Py_UNICODE, whereas the API in question uses UniChar (which apparently is a two-byte type).

Right, thanks for clearing that up. Then #15035 would indeed support deprecating
'u' and 'w' and moving on to UCS2 and UCS4 arrays.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-08-16 12:25:04	skrah	set	recipients: + skrah, loewis, teoliphant, ronaldoussoren, ncoghlan
2012-08-16 12:25:03	skrah	link	issue15625 messages
2012-08-16 12:25:03	skrah	create