On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:51 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
Can someone explain to me why this is such a controversial issue?
I guess practicality versus purity is always controversial :-)
It seems reasonable to me to add new encodings to the stdlib that do the roundtripping requested in the first message of the thread. As long as they have new names that seems to fall under "practicality beats purity". (Modifying existing encodings seems wrong -- did the feature request somehow transmogrify into that?)
Someone did discover that Microsoft's current implementations of the windows-* encodings matches the WHAT-WG spec, rather than the Unicode spec that Microsoft originally wrote. So there is some argument that the Python's existing encodings are simply out of date, and changing them would be a bugfix. (And standards aside, it is surely going to be somewhat error-prone if Python's windows-1252 doesn't match everyone else's implementations of windows-1252.) But yeah, AFAICT the original requesters would be happy either way; they just want it available under some name. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org