#51141: Consider building Python with +ucs4 by default --------------------------+------------------- Reporter: audvare@… | Owner: jwa@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.3.4 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: python27 | --------------------------+------------------- Comment (by nad@…): I would strongly discourage changing the default to ucs4. On OS X, the convention for Python 2 has always been to use ucs2; I'm not aware of any other Python 2 distribution on OS X that uses ucs4. There are many implications: such a change could impact use of precompiled wheels; for some programs it could have a big impact on memory usage, and it can have an impact for any C extension modules that pass Unicode arguments. And, in the end, ucs4 is kind of a bandage anyway. If use of the full Unicode code set is important to you, you should certainly be using the latest versions of Python 3, whose major feature is native support of Unicode, not Python 2. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51141#comment:3> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X