[Python-Dev] Japanese Codecs

Andrew M. Kuchling akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:08:46 -0400


On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:03:56PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>I'm asking this, because Tamito KAJIYAMA wrote a set of
>codecs for EUC-JP and Shift_JIS which would probably
>be very useful for Japanese Python users -- I just don't
>know how many there are and whether inclusion of an extra
>650k of source code would hurt or not.

This seems too much code added that would only be of use to a limited
audience, so -1 from me.  Japanese packagers of Python would probably
include them, of course.

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