[Email-SIG] support CJKCodecs in Charset.py

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 22:54, Jason R.Mastaler wrote:
> Should we support CJKCodecs in Charset.py?  See
> http://cjkpython.i18n.org/.
> 
> Currently we use a combination of 3 separate packages to support
> Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.  Switching to cjkcodecs would support
> all of them with just one package.
> 
> In addition, 2 of the 3 packages we currently support are obsolete.
> KoreanCodecs and ChineseCodecs have been revoked in favor of
> cjkcodecs, so the code is no longer even available.  JapaneseCodecs is
> still available, but has not been developed in over a year.  cjkcodecs
> is actively developed, and available in port/package form for a number
> of operating systems.
> 
> I have a diff against CVS Charset.py that applies support for
> cjkcodecs if you are interested.

There were some similar discussions on mailman-developers a while back. 
I'm not qualified to say, and I don't know if folks like Tokio Kikuchi,
Ben Gertzfield, and Martin von Loewis are on this list, but IIRC, there
was some controversy here.

-Barry