No latin9 in Python?
Christoph Zwerschke
cito at online.de
Wed Dec 6 06:11:46 EST 2006
I noticed that Python does not understand the codec alias names
latin7 = iso8859-13, latin9 = iso8859-15
(see http://docs.python.org/lib/standard-encodings.html).
Particularly latin9 is pretty popular here in Western Europe since it
contains the Euro symbol (contrary to latin1).
According to the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-8859), the
latin7 and latin9 aliases seem to be official, at least they are widely
used an accepted. In PostgreSQL, LATIN9 is even the name of the charset,
and iso8859-15 is the alias name:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/multibyte.html#CHARSET-TABLE
Is there anything speaking against adding these as aliases? If no, I
would submit a patch. (Also, Python does not support the
latin10=iso8859-16 charset. I could try to add that as well.)
-- Chris
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