[Email-SIG] Re: support CJKCodecs in Charset.py

[Jason R. Mastaler]

Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> writes:

> There were some similar discussions on mailman-developers a while
> back. I'm not qualified to say, and I don't know if folks like Tokio
> Kikuchi, Ben Gertzfield, and Martin von Loewis are on this list, but
> IIRC, there was some controversy here.

Controversy regarding all of cjkcodecs, or just the Japanese portion?

The maintainer of cjkcodecs was also the maintainer of KoreanCodecs,
and he has revoked KoreanCodecs.  He also says ChineseCodecs was never
formally released, and it hasn't been maintained for 3 years (a quick
look at the source code confirms this).  So, I think these two can
safely be replaced.

Should I modify my patch to leave the Japanese alone, and only replace
Korean and Chinese with cjkcodecs?  Do you want to investigate this
issue of cjkcodecs vs. JapaneseCodecs further?