[I18n-sig] iconv encoding/decoding

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Brian Takashi Hooper wrote:
> 
> Hi all -
> 
> Have others looked at the double-byte codec implementations for iconv,
> in glibc 2?
> 
> This implementation uses customized lookup code for each encoding - I
> don't think it's possible to make something that will run much faster
> than this.  However, maybe we would be better off making a state-machine
> based implementation that can be programmed and customized from Python.
> Looking at the iconv implementation should give us a good idea of what
> atomic actions are possible.
> 
> There are also scripts for automating the table creation from the
> mapping tables at Unicode.org, and test data sets.  Does Python's
> license allow us to borrow pieces from GPL'd software?

It does, but nothing GPLed can go into the core distribution
and have such an important piece of software under GPL would
harm the useability of these codecs in commercial apps.

Borrowing a few ideas is allowed though :-)

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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