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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-10-04 23:31:05 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-10-04 23:31:05 (GMT)
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Document requierements of Unicode kinds
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diff --git a/Include/unicodeobject.h b/Include/unicodeobject.h
index 9ddc026..0fd752f 100644
--- a/Include/unicodeobject.h
+++ b/Include/unicodeobject.h
@@ -288,10 +288,26 @@ typedef struct {
unsigned int interned:2;
/* Character size:
- PyUnicode_WCHAR_KIND (0): wchar_t*
- PyUnicode_1BYTE_KIND (1): Py_UCS1*
- PyUnicode_2BYTE_KIND (2): Py_UCS2*
- PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND (3): Py_UCS4*
+ - PyUnicode_WCHAR_KIND (0):
+
+ * character type = wchar_t (16 or 32 bits, depending on the
+ platform)
+
+ - PyUnicode_1BYTE_KIND (1):
+
+ * character type = Py_UCS1 (8 bits, unsigned)
+ * if ascii is 1, at least one character must be in range
+ U+80-U+FF, otherwise all characters must be in range U+00-U+7F
+
+ - PyUnicode_2BYTE_KIND (2):
+
+ * character type = Py_UCS2 (16 bits, unsigned)
+ * at least one character must be in range U+0100-U+1FFFF
+
+ - PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND (3):
+
+ * character type = Py_UCS4 (32 bits, unsigned)
+ * at least one character must be in range U+10000-U+10FFFF
*/
unsigned int kind:2;
/* Compact is with respect to the allocation scheme. Compact unicode