diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 0d2a04b..02f5f73 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-# From configure.in Revision: 59625 .
+# From configure.in Revision: 59826 .
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61 for python 3.0.
 #
@@ -728,7 +728,6 @@
 HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME
 LIBM
 LIBC
-UNICODE_OBJS
 THREADHEADERS
 SRCDIRS
 LTLIBOBJS'
@@ -1321,8 +1320,6 @@
   --enable-toolbox-glue   disable/enable MacOSX glue code for extensions
   --enable-ipv6           Enable ipv6 (with ipv4) support
   --disable-ipv6          Disable ipv6 support
-  --enable-unicode[=ucs[24]]
-                          Enable Unicode strings (default is yes)
 
 Optional Packages:
   --with-PACKAGE[=ARG]    use PACKAGE [ARG=yes]
@@ -1349,6 +1346,7 @@
   --with-fpectl           enable SIGFPE catching
   --with-libm=STRING      math library
   --with-libc=STRING      C library
+  --with-wide-unicode     Use 4-byte Unicode characters (default is 2 bytes)
 
 Some influential environment variables:
   CC          C compiler command
@@ -21481,95 +21479,76 @@
 echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_cv_wchar_t_signed" >&6; }
 fi
 
-{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking what type to use for unicode" >&5
-echo $ECHO_N "checking what type to use for unicode... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
-# Check whether --enable-unicode was given.
-if test "${enable_unicode+set}" = set; then
-  enableval=$enable_unicode;
+{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking what type to use for str" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking what type to use for str... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
+
+# Check whether --with-wide-unicode was given.
+if test "${with_wide_unicode+set}" = set; then
+  withval=$with_wide_unicode;
+if test "$withval" != no
+then unicode_size="4"
+else unicode_size="2"
+fi
+
 else
-  enable_unicode=yes
-fi
 
+case "$have_ucs4_tcl" in
+  yes) unicode_size="4" ;;
+  *)   unicode_size="2" ;;
+esac
 
-if test $enable_unicode = yes
-then
-  # Without any arguments, Py_UNICODE defaults to two-byte mode
-  case "$have_ucs4_tcl" in
-  yes) enable_unicode="ucs4"
-       ;;
-  *)   enable_unicode="ucs2"
-       ;;
-  esac
 fi
 
 
 
-case "$enable_unicode" in
-ucs2) unicode_size="2"
-      cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
-#define Py_UNICODE_SIZE 2
-_ACEOF
 
-      ;;
-ucs4) unicode_size="4"
-      cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
+case "$unicode_size" in
+  4) cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
 #define Py_UNICODE_SIZE 4
 _ACEOF
-
-      ;;
+ ;;
+  *) cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
+#define Py_UNICODE_SIZE 2
+_ACEOF
+ ;;
 esac
 
 
 
 
-
-if test "$enable_unicode" = "no"
-then
-  UNICODE_OBJS=""
-  { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: not used" >&5
-echo "${ECHO_T}not used" >&6; }
-else
-  UNICODE_OBJS="Objects/unicodeobject.o Objects/unicodectype.o"
-
-cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
-#define Py_USING_UNICODE 1
-_ACEOF
-
-
-  # wchar_t is only usable if it maps to an unsigned type
-  if test "$unicode_size" = "$ac_cv_sizeof_wchar_t" \
+# wchar_t is only usable if it maps to an unsigned type
+if test "$unicode_size" = "$ac_cv_sizeof_wchar_t" \
           -a "$ac_cv_wchar_t_signed" = "no"
-  then
-    PY_UNICODE_TYPE="wchar_t"
+then
+  PY_UNICODE_TYPE="wchar_t"
 
 cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
 #define HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T 1
 _ACEOF
 
-    cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
+  cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
 #define PY_UNICODE_TYPE wchar_t
 _ACEOF
 
-  elif test "$ac_cv_sizeof_short" = "$unicode_size"
-  then
-       PY_UNICODE_TYPE="unsigned short"
-       cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
+elif test "$ac_cv_sizeof_short" = "$unicode_size"
+then
+     PY_UNICODE_TYPE="unsigned short"
+     cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
 #define PY_UNICODE_TYPE unsigned short
 _ACEOF
 
-  elif test "$ac_cv_sizeof_long" = "$unicode_size"
-  then
-       PY_UNICODE_TYPE="unsigned long"
-       cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
+elif test "$ac_cv_sizeof_long" = "$unicode_size"
+then
+     PY_UNICODE_TYPE="unsigned long"
+     cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
 #define PY_UNICODE_TYPE unsigned long
 _ACEOF
 
-  else
-       PY_UNICODE_TYPE="no type found"
-  fi
-  { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $PY_UNICODE_TYPE" >&5
-echo "${ECHO_T}$PY_UNICODE_TYPE" >&6; }
+else
+     PY_UNICODE_TYPE="no type found"
 fi
+{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $PY_UNICODE_TYPE" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}$PY_UNICODE_TYPE" >&6; }
 
 # check for endianness
 { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether byte ordering is bigendian" >&5
@@ -24432,13 +24411,12 @@
 HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME!$HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME$ac_delim
 LIBM!$LIBM$ac_delim
 LIBC!$LIBC$ac_delim
-UNICODE_OBJS!$UNICODE_OBJS$ac_delim
 THREADHEADERS!$THREADHEADERS$ac_delim
 SRCDIRS!$SRCDIRS$ac_delim
 LTLIBOBJS!$LTLIBOBJS$ac_delim
 _ACEOF
 
-  if test `sed -n "s/.*$ac_delim\$/X/p" conf$$subs.sed | grep -c X` = 19; then
+  if test `sed -n "s/.*$ac_delim\$/X/p" conf$$subs.sed | grep -c X` = 18; then
     break
   elif $ac_last_try; then
     { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: could not make $CONFIG_STATUS" >&5