"MvL" == Martin v Loewis
writes:
>> I bet we'd win some Ruby converts if we did this <wink>. 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. MvL> That is certainly the right thing to do. If correctness could MvL> be verified independently, I'd be in favour of including them MvL> with Python - even though they will likely never get the MvL> efficiency that wrappers around the platform's codecs would MvL> have. I'm obviously not qualified to verify them independently, but I have had some initial positive feedback from a few Japanese users of the MM2.1 alphas. My second hand information indicates that he Japanese codecs are pretty good, the Chinese are okay, and the Korean ones need a lot of work. Also, it's a bit of a catch 22, in that the more official exposure these codecs get, the better they will eventually become, hopefully. I'd be +1 on including them in Python 2.3. -Barry