FS#10760 - [python] is built without USC4 support
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Opened by Mika Hynnä (ighea) - Thursday, 26 June 2008, 00:35 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 11 September 2010, 04:37 GMT
Opened by Mika Hynnä (ighea) - Thursday, 26 June 2008, 00:35 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 11 September 2010, 04:37 GMT
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Could python package be build with configuration option
--enable-unicode=ucs4 so we could get some python
applications depending on UCS4-support working too and not
failing with error messages similar to following:
[~]$ vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux Traceback (most recent call last): from _gobject import type_from_name ImportError: /opt/vmc/lib/python/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/_gobject.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_FromObject In my opinion adding UCS4-support would greatly improve Arch Linux's usability in the future especially with 3G-modem driver applications as shown above. There does not seem to be any drawbacks with this either if I'm not totally wrong. Additional information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-32 |
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Closed by Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 11 September 2010, 04:37 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: This is enabled in the python2 (2.7) and python (3.1) packages that the repos are being built for now.
Saturday, 11 September 2010, 04:37 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: This is enabled in the python2 (2.7) and python (3.1) packages that the repos are being built for now.
For me, I ran into problems when processing Chinese documents. It's not rare that UCS4 characters appear in some Chinese documents.
Please consider do the transition now. Thank you very much in advance.
I am transitioning Arch to python-3.x with the release of python-2.7 (about two months away) but even then only python-3 will be built with wide character support and python-2 will stay as it is for compatibility reasons.
And I have another request for sip. Maybe you should send this to Andrea Scarpino, but I think here is also a good place. It seems that sip can support python2 and python3. But now only installed for python2. And this is also happened with pyqt, maybe dbus-python need update for this also. Could you do this for everybody? By the way, there is already some packages on aur, but "offical" is good right?