[wxPython-users] wxPython and Unicode and widgets

[Christopher Barker]

Andrea Gavana wrote:
> - It is very difficult (impossible?) to setup an encoding which will
> support *all* the possible characters in the known world languages. I
> used utf-8 for GUI2Exe but I remember I read it could fail anyway in
> some occasions (but my memory could fail here);

I'm curious, because that's certainly the goal of Unicode, and utf-8 is 
supposed to support it. Besides, where could data come from that can't 
be encoded as utf-8?

There is a Python issue that still confuses me. Internally, Python can 
use either UCS-16 or UCS-32, depending on how it is compiled. It's my 
understanding the UCS-16 can hold most, but not all of the codepoints, 
so what happens when you try to use one that it can't hold?

And what does wx use internally in Unicode builds?

-Chris


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