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[Martin v. Loewis]

> On the CJK issue, why python ship its own codec, not using OS builtin?

The OS doesn't provide all the codecs that Python provides. For the one
it does provide, it behaves semantically different in border cases from
the ones that come with Python.

> If I don't need the full Unicode5.1 can I just map python's unicode
> functions to some Win32 unicode API?

That should be possible - but I doubt it's a matter of "just".

Regards,
Martin