Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.n-ix.net!news.belwue.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: "Martin v. Loewis" Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: minimal python27.dll? Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 14:51:42 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <4DB8774C.9080400@v.loewis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: port-92-206-127-233.dynamic.qsc.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: online.de 1304254302 8886 92.206.127.233 (1 May 2011 12:51:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 12:51:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110402 Icedove/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:4391 > On the CJK issue, why python ship its own codec, not using OS builtin? The OS doesn't provide all the codecs that Python provides. For the one it does provide, it behaves semantically different in border cases from the ones that come with Python. > If I don't need the full Unicode5.1 can I just map python's unicode > functions to some Win32 unicode API? That should be possible - but I doubt it's a matter of "just". Regards, Martin