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Remove mention of narrow/wide builds in the codecs doc.

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Ezio Melotti 2011-10-25 10:30:19 +03:00
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@ -787,11 +787,9 @@ methods and attributes from the underlying stream.
Encodings and Unicode
---------------------
Strings are stored internally as sequences of codepoints (to be precise
as :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` arrays). Depending on the way Python is compiled (either
via ``--without-wide-unicode`` or ``--with-wide-unicode``, with the
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
Strings are stored internally as sequences of codepoints in range ``0 - 10FFFF``
(see :pep:`393` for more details about the implementation).
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
string object from the sequence of bytes is known as decoding. There are many