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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-06 10:11:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-06 10:11:56 (GMT) |
| commit | 60203b41b03d03361754d264543d5fbe6259eb25 (patch) | |
| tree | 005d0d6be6437244ae360ebc0d65fa7b149a8093 /Doc/library/codecs.rst | |
| parent | 64a41edb039afee683d69bd6f72e3709ff11bd93 (diff) | |
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Migrate to Sphinx 1.0 C language constructs.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index e734fee..1971136 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -787,9 +787,9 @@ Encodings and Unicode --------------------- Strings are stored internally as sequences of codepoints (to be precise -as :ctype:`Py_UNICODE` arrays). Depending on the way Python is compiled (either +as :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` arrays). Depending on the way Python is compiled (either via :option:`--without-wide-unicode` or :option:`--with-wide-unicode`, with the -former being the default) :ctype:`Py_UNICODE` is either a 16-bit or 32-bit data +former being the default) :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` is either a 16-bit or 32-bit data type. Once a string object is used outside of CPU and memory, CPU endianness and how these arrays are stored as bytes become an issue. Transforming a string object into a sequence of bytes is called encoding and recreating the |