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Ben Gertzfield che@debian.org
Mon, 01 Apr 2002 09:07:31 +0900


>>>>> "Martin" =3D=3D Martin v L=F6wis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> wri=
tes:

    Ben> They're not one-to-one; for example, ISO-2022-JP goes to
    Ben> japanese.iso-2022-jp.

    Martin> That is actually a bug in the Japanese codecs package; it
    Martin> ought to register a lookup function, instead of relying on
    Martin> the default lookup function. If that bug is not fixed,
    Martin> modifying codecs.encodings.aliases.aliases might be
    Martin> appropriate.

I believe the rationale is that when the Japanese codecs are accepted
into Python, the author did not want the older versions conflicting
with them.  I'm pretty sure the Chinese and Korean codecs are
installed in the same way.

Ben

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