[New-bugs-announce] [issue2857] add coded for java modified utf-8

[paul rubin]

New submission from paul rubin <phr at users.sourceforge.net>:

For object serialization and some other purposes, Java encodes unicode
strings with a modified version of utf-8:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Java
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/DataInput.html#modified-utf-8

It is used in Lucene index files among other places.

It would be useful if Python had a codec for this, maybe called "UTF-8J"
or something like that.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 66843
nosy: phr
severity: normal
status: open
title: add coded for java modified utf-8
versions: Python 2.5

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