[Python-Dev] Adding Japanese Codecs to the distro (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:07:10 +0100

Atsuo Ishimoto wrote:

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:05:21 +0100 "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> wrote:

I'm not biased in any direction here. Again, I'd love to see the two sets be merged into one, e.g. take the Python ones from Hisao and use the C ones from Tamito if they are installed instead. Here again, I entreat to add Tamito's C version as standard Japanese codec. It's fast, is proven quite stable and correct. If people need to customize mapping table(this may happen in some cases, but not common task. I believe almost 100% of Japanese programmers never had wrote such a special mapping table), and if they think Tamito's codec is too difficult to customize(while I don't think so), and only if they are satisfied with performance of codec written in Python, they will download and install the Python version of codec.

Wouldn't it be better to use Hisao's codec per default and revert to Tamito's in case that's installed in the system ?

We also need active maintainers for the codecs. I think ideal would be to get Hisao share this load -- Hisao for the Python version and Tamito for the C one.

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