Hye-Shik Chang wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:42:50AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >>Since the introduction of the iconv codec there have been numerous >>bug reports related to the codec and the lack of cross platform >>support for it (ranging from: the codec doesn't compile and the >>codec doesn't support standard names for common encodings to >>core dumps in the linking phase). >> >>I'd like to question whether the codec is really ready for prime >>time yet. Right now it causes people more trouble than it does >>any good. > > iconv_codec NG is ready to submit to SF. I think the newer > implementation can resolve many of the patch reports. Are you sure ? As I mentioned in my mail, most problems seem to be related to the platform's iconv implementation, not so much to the Python one. > I'll submit > it in a few days. If you have a time, you can review my patches > before my submission. Sorry, no time for that. I'm heading off to Python UK today. > The patch includes ko, zh_CN, zh_TW codecs, also. > > A note about another problems on the current iconv_codec: > http://fallin.lv/cvs/~checkout~/py-multibytecodec/reports/iconv.1 > > The multibytecodecs which is in my patch submission queue: > http://fallin.lv/distfiles/py-multibytecodec-030331.tar.gz > >>OTOH, without some field testing the codec will never get into >>shape for prime time, so perhaps it would be better to only >>enable it via a configure option or make a failure to compile >>the codec as painless as possible. > > I agree. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Software directly from the Source (#1, Mar 31 2003) >>> Python/Zope Products & Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ Python UK 2003, Oxford: one day left EuroPython 2003, Charleroi, Belgium: 85 days left
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