[issue7475] codecs missing: base64 bz2 hex zlib hex_codec ...

[Florent Xicluna]

Florent Xicluna added the comment:

I am not a native english speaker, but it seems that the common usage of encode/decode is wider than the restricted definition applied for Python 3.3:

Some examples:

* RFC 4648 specifies "Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings"
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648

* About rot13: "the same code can be used for encoding and decoding"
  http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/rot13.html

* The Huffman coding is "an entropy encoding algorithm" (used for DEFLATE)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding

* RFC 2616 lists (zlib's) deflate or gzip as "encoding transformations"
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-3.5


However, I acknowledge that there are valid reasons to choose a different verb too.

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