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Title: Including python-codecs codecs in standard distribution?
Type: enhancement Stage:
Components: Unicode Versions:
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
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Assigned To: Nosy List: barry, bjoerns, loewis, nnorwitz
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2003-03-20 16:07 by bjoerns, last changed 2022-04-10 16:07 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg53813 - (view) Author: Bjorn Stabell (bjoerns) Date: 2003-03-20 16:07
Are there any plans to include the python-codecs in the 
standard distribution?  They are Chinese and Japanese 
encodings, very useful if you live in China or Japan, 
which quite a few people do :)  -- Imagine having to 
download ASCII encoding separately.

What's stopping the inclusion, if anything?
msg53814 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * (Python committer) Date: 2003-03-29 15:05
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The size of the code, and its correctness is stopping
inclusion of these codecs.
msg53815 - (view) Author: Barry A. Warsaw (barry) * (Python committer) Date: 2003-03-29 17:32
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We should continue to discuss this.  There are good technical and political reasons for re-evaluating whether to include Asian codecs in a batteries included Python distribution.

I suggest python-dev and/or i18n-sig @python.org.
msg53816 - (view) Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) * (Python committer) Date: 2007-03-16 05:51
CJK codecs was introduced in Python 2.4 IIRC.  I assume that satisfies this request.
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