[Python-Dev] Some thoughts on the codecs...
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:50:31 +0100
Andy Robinson wrote:
>
> Leave JISXXX and the CJK stuff out. If you get into Japanese, you
> really need to cover ShiftJIS, EUC-JP and JIS, they are big, and there
> are lots of options about how to do it. The other ones are
> algorithmic and can be small and fast and fit into the core.
>
> Ditto with HTML, and maybe even escaped-unicode too.
So I can drop JIS ? [I won't be able to drop the escaped unicode
codec because this is needed for u"" and ur"".]
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