[ python-Feature Requests-706970 ] Including python-codecs codecs in standard distribution?

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Feature Requests item #706970, was opened at 2003-03-20 08:07
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Category: Unicode
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>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Bjorn Stabell (bjoerns)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Including python-codecs codecs in standard distribution?

Initial Comment:
Are there any plans to include the python-codecs in the 
standard distribution?  They are Chinese and Japanese 
encodings, very useful if you live in China or Japan, 
which quite a few people do :)  -- Imagine having to 
download ASCII encoding separately.

What's stopping the inclusion, if anything?

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>Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2007-03-15 22:51

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CJK codecs was introduced in Python 2.4 IIRC.  I assume that satisfies
this request.

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Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2003-03-29 09:32

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We should continue to discuss this.  There are good technical and
political reasons for re-evaluating whether to include Asian codecs in a
batteries included Python distribution.

I suggest python-dev and/or i18n-sig @python.org.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2003-03-29 07:05

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The size of the code, and its correctness is stopping
inclusion of these codecs.

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