[I18n-sig] CJKCodecs 1.0b1 is released

[Hye-Shik Chang]

The CJKCodecs 1.0b1 is released and available for download at:

 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46747


The CJKCodecs is a unified unicode codec set for Chinese, Japanese
and Korean encodings. It supports full features of unicode codec
specification and PEP293 error callbacks on Python 2.3.

The CJKCodecs is supporting these encodings in this time:

 big5 cp932 cp949 cp950 euc-jisx0213 euc-jp euc-kr gb18030 gb2312
 gbk hz iso-2022-jp iso-2022-jp-1 iso-2022-jp-2 iso-2022-jp-3
 iso-2022-kr johab shift-jis shift-jisx0213 utf-16 utf-16be utf-16le
 utf-7 utf-8

Changes with 1.0b1 from 0.9:

  *) SHIFT-JISX0213, EUC-JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP-2 and ISO-2022-JP-3
     codec is added.

  *) UTF-7, UTF-16, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE codec is added.

  *) Changed a few characters of a big5 codepoint mapping to cp950's
     rather than 0xfffd. (documented on NOTES.big5)

  *) Fixed a bug that JIS X 0201 routine doesn't encode and decode 0x7f.

  *) Tweaked some mapping for cp932 and cp950 to make more consistency
     with MS Windows.
     - CP932: Added single byte "UNDEFINED" characters 0x80, 0xa0, 0xfd,
              0xfe, 0xff (documented on NOTES.cp932)
     - CP950: Changed encode mappings to another more popular for
              duplicated unicode points: 5341 -> A451, 5345 -> A4CA

  *) A unittest for big5 mapping is added.

  *) Fixed a bug that cp932 codec couldn't decode half-width katakana.

  *) Added a workaround for PyObject_GenericGetAttr to enable compiling
     with mingw32. [Young-Sik Won]

  *) Enable gb18030 and utf-8 codec encode and decode iso-10646-2
     characters using surrogate pair.

  *) Fixed gb18030 codec's syntax error that disturbs compilation on
     python compiled with --with-unicode=ucs4 option. [Son, Kyung-uk]

  *) StreamWriter became to be able to buffer incomplete sequences.
     (this feature is used for surrogate-pair and mapping from unicode
      character with a following modifier)

  *) EUC-JP codec's mapping for 0xA1C0 is changed from U+005C to
     U+FF3C because EUC-JP 0x5C is also a REVERSE SOLIDUS and 0xA1C0 is
     FULLWIDTH REVERSE SOLIDUS on japanese environments.

  *) Fixed hz codec's bug that doesn't initialize the encoding mode to
     ASCII.


Thank you very much!

Regards,
    Hye-Shik =)