Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:
STINNER Victor wrote:
>
> STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
>
> I think that the normalization function in unicodeobject.c (only used for
> internal functions) can skip any character different than a-z, A-Z and 0-9.
> Something like:
>
>>>> import re
>>>> def normalize(name): return re.sub("[^a-z0-9]", "", name.lower())
> ...
>>>> normalize("UTF-8")
> 'utf8'
>>>> normalize("ISO-8859-1")
> 'iso88591'
>>>> normalize("latin1")
> 'latin1'
>
> So ISO-8859-1, ISO885-1, LATIN-1, latin1, UTF-8, utf8, etc. will be
> normalized to iso88591, latin1 and utf8.
>
> I don't know any encoding name where a character outside a-z, A-Z, 0-9 means
> anything special. But I don't know all encoding names! :-)
I think rather than removing any hyphens, spaces, etc. the
function should additionally:
* add hyphens whenever (they are missing and) there's switch
from [a-z] to [0-9]
That way you end up with the correct names for the given set of
optimized encoding names.
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title: b'x'.decode('latin1') is much slower than b'x'.decode('latin-1') ->
b'x'.decode('latin1') is much slower than b'x'.decode('latin-1')
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