Japanese codecs (was Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 263 -- Python Source Code Encoding) (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
27 Feb 2002 23:02:03 +0100

barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:

Which actually touches on something I wanted to bring up. Why don't we include the Japanese codecs with Python? Is it just a size issue?

I think Guido's original concern was about the size (apart from the fact that they were not available before).

My concern is also correctness and efficiency. Most current systems provide high-performance well-tested codecs, since they need those frequently. It is a waste of resources not to make use of these codecs. The counter-argument, of course, is that you cannot always rely on these codecs being available (apart from the fact that you need wrappers around the platform API).

I bet we'd win some Ruby converts if we did this . For reference, I'm thinking about including the Japanese and Chinese codecs with MM2.1 because it makes little sense to claim support for those languages without them.

That is certainly the right thing to do. If correctness could be verified independently, I'd be in favour of including them with Python

Regards, Martin