How to change python from UCS2 to UCS4

python unicode compilation ucs
comrad picture comrad · Oct 24, 2013 · Viewed 14.7k times · Source

I have a Python2.7 with UCS2 build installed on Ubuntu 12.10. I just want to recompile python with UCS4 or enable UCS4. How should I do this?

Answer

Martijn Pieters picture Martijn Pieters · Oct 24, 2013

Use:

./configure --enable-unicode=ucs4

to configure the source to build with UCS4 support.

From the ./configure --help output:

  --enable-unicode[=ucs[24]]
                          Enable Unicode strings (default is ucs2)

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