Tetsuya Morimoto added the comment: >> These character encodings are legacy, but are still used. > > Do you have an idea of how many users still have documents stored or > exchanged using these encodings?
Hmm, I guess iso-2022-jp codec is still default charset of MUA (Mail User Agent) on Japanese Windows platform. But I'm not sure how many so I'll investigate, wait a few days. > The patch is not trivial, the legacy japanese codecs are complex and so error > prone :-/ Ya, this patch has some refactoring. However, existing tests have passed and adding encoding codecs wouldn't affect other codecs basically. Why do you think it's "error plone"? > For previous requests to add new codecs, we closed issues as wontfix and we > suggested to share the codecs at the Python Cheeseshop (PyPI). Here it's more > complex because C code is modified to implement the new encodings. Could you show me previous requests? I can understand C code modifying is higher cost to review. However, we have codec tests and it wouldn't affect other codecs, I think. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23050> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
