On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:51 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Can someone explain to me why this is such a controversial issue?
I guess practicality versus purity is always controversial :-) > It seems reasonable to me to add new encodings to the stdlib that do the > roundtripping requested in the first message of the thread. As long as they > have new names that seems to fall under "practicality beats purity". > (Modifying existing encodings seems wrong -- did the feature request somehow > transmogrify into that?) Someone did discover that Microsoft's current implementations of the windows-* encodings matches the WHAT-WG spec, rather than the Unicode spec that Microsoft originally wrote. So there is some argument that the Python's existing encodings are simply out of date, and changing them would be a bugfix. (And standards aside, it is surely going to be somewhat error-prone if Python's windows-1252 doesn't match everyone else's implementations of windows-1252.) But yeah, AFAICT the original requesters would be happy either way; they just want it available under some name. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
