"Martin v. Loewis" wrote: > > 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). Which wrapper APIs do we currently have which could actually be made part of the Python core ? Aside: while it's true that we could use those, the Unicode implementation has shown that rolling our own has worked out quite well too. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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