From 6db1ddd9c7776cf07222ae58dc9b2c44135ac59a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bharat123Rox <bharatr@symphonyai.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 23:02:58 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Raise ValueError for narrow unicode build

---
 spacy/__init__.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spacy/__init__.py b/spacy/__init__.py
index 3498aafb7..726283e01 100644
--- a/spacy/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # coding: utf8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import warnings
+import sys
 
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message="numpy.dtype size changed")
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message="numpy.ufunc size changed")
@@ -14,6 +15,12 @@ from .about import __version__
 from .errors import Warnings, deprecation_warning
 from . import util
 
+if __version__ >= '2.1.0' and sys.maxunicode <= 65535:
+    raise ValueError('''You are running a narrow unicode build,
+    which is incompatible with spacy >= 2.1.0, reinstall Python and use a
+    wide unicode build instead. You can also rebuild Python and
+    set the --enable-unicode=ucs4 flag.''')
+
 
 def load(name, **overrides):
     depr_path = overrides.get("path")