Question

Just what the title says.

$ ./configure --help | grep -i ucs
  --enable-unicode[=ucs[24]]

Searching the official documentation, I found this:

sys.maxunicode: An integer giving the
largest supported code point for a
Unicode character. The value of this
depends on the configuration option
that specifies whether Unicode
characters are stored as UCS-2 or
UCS-4.

What is not clear here is – which value(s) correspond to UCS-2 and UCS-4.

The code is expected to work on Python 2.6+.

Answer 1

When built with –enable-unicode=ucs4:

>>> import sys
>>> print sys.maxunicode
1114111

When built with –enable-unicode=ucs2:

>>> import sys
>>> print sys.maxunicode
65535