[issue5214] Add KOI8-RU as a known encoding

Changes by STINNER Victor : -- resolution: -> rejected ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://

[issue5214] Add KOI8-RU as a known encoding

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Viktor, I found this reference which has some background information regarding koi8-ru and other cyrillic encodings: http://segfault.kiev.ua/cyrillic-encodings/ "This charset wasn't supported by Ukrainian Internet community due to political reasons; KOI8-U

[issue5214] Add KOI8-RU as a known encoding

STINNER Victor added the comment: > @lemburg: I can't comment on the status of the standard. > I would assume that like most 8 bit encodings that these > are falling away and being replaced by Unicode. Can I close this issue? Or do we have enough KOI8-RU users to include this charset in Pytho

[issue5214] Add KOI8-RU as a known encoding

Dwayne Bailey added the comment: @haypo: The encoding works and doesn't throw and error, my guess is that aliases should be updated to cover the variant namings of -R and -U. I also found glibc points to this reference http://cad.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua/multiling/koi8-ru/ which seems to have disappeare

[issue5214] Add KOI8-RU as a known encoding

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Could you please clarify the official status of this encoding. According to this page: http://www.terena.org/activities/multiling/koi8-ru/index.html it is currently only a proposed draft which hasn't been updated since 1997. -- nosy: +lemburg vers

[issue5214] Add KOI8-RU as a known encoding

STINNER Victor added the comment: My version of iconv (2.6.1) doesn't support KOI8-RU, only: - CSKOI8R - KOI-7 - KOI-8 - KOI8-R: supported by python trunk - KOI8-T - KOI8-U: supported by python trunk - KOI8 - KOI8R - KOI8U Note: python trunk doesn't support KOI8R nor KOI8U (which are j

[issue5214] Add KOI8-RU as a known encoding

STINNER Victor added the comment: Attach file used as gencodec.py input: koi8-ru. dwayne: Does the result look correct? Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13053/koi8-ru ___ Python tracker _

[issue5214] Add KOI8-RU as a known encoding

STINNER Victor added the comment: I found this file http://ra.dkuug.dk/i18n/charmaps/KOI8-RU. I converted it to a format compatible with gencodec.py. Here is the resulting file: copy it into /encodings/. -- nosy: +haypo Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13050/koi8_ru.py

[issue5214] Add KOI8-RU as a known encoding

New submission from Dwayne Bailey : >>> u = unicode("bob", "KOI8-RU") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in LookupError: unknown encoding: KOI8-RU This could be broadened to see that we support all encodings that are supported by iconv. -- components: Unicode message