summary: python3.0 common_configure_args in debian/rules should have "--with-wide-unicode"

[bellbind]

Binary package hint: python3.0

At jaunty python3.0 package, common_configure_args in debian/rules should have "--with-wide-unicode" as:

common_configure_args = \
                --prefix=/usr \
                --enable-ipv6 \
                --with-system-ffi \
                --with-wide-unicode \

The python2.6 (or python2.5) package is configured with "--enable-unicode=ucs4".
It makes programs handle any UCS4 unicode character as a single character.
for example:

#!/usr/bin/python2.6
print(len(u'\U0002000B')) # => 1: it is a surrogate-pair character if encoded to UTF-16

But current python3.0_3.0.1-0ubuntu12 package is no "--with-wide-unicode". So the character cannot be handled as a single:

#!/usr/bin/python3.0
print(len('\U0002000B')) # => 2

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

yes, will be addressed for python3.1. I won't fix this for python3.0, because it's the same default as in intrepid, and we will drop python3.0 soon after python3.1 is available in karmic.

[bellbind (bellbind)]

Thank you for replying. I accept the decision.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed in karmic and lucid