[issue23050] Add Japanese legacy encodings

[Tetsuya Morimoto]

Tetsuya Morimoto added the comment:

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:04 AM, R. David Murray <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> In emails these are labeled as, say, iso-2022-jp-ms?

No. These are labeled just 'iso-2022-jp' and we (japanese) choose
proper charset encoding to decode the encoded text. You can see
several variants of iso-2022-jp. Yes, that's a very strange, but it's
a historical reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_2022#ISO.2FIEC_2022_character_sets

> See also issue 8898 with regards to email encodings.

Therefore, this is different issue.

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