[DO-SIG] Re: [omniORB] omniORBpy, Python 2.0 and unicode

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:08:04 +0100


> It would be nice if a Python string could also be passed as a
> wstring parameter.  Then it should all work perfectly.  We would be
> able to change the 4Suite Server IDLs to use wstring.

I doubt that you can make this work reliably. What encoding should the
ORB negotiate or assume when it gets a narrow (byte) string?

Regards,
Martin