On 2009-03-17 13:30, Hye-Shik Chang wrote:
> Hye-Shik Chang <hyeshik@gmail.com> added the comment:
> 
> When I asked Taiwanese developers how often they use these character
> sets, it appeared that they are almost useless in the usual computing
> environment in Taiwan.  This will only serve for a historical
> compatibility and literal standard compliance.  I'm quite neutral in
> adding this into python without any user's request from Taiwan (I'm from
> South Korea :), but I can finish committing it with pleasure if you are
> still fond of the codec.

If there's no user base for it, then we should not include it.

I was under the impression that this charset is essential for the Taiwanese
and Chinese (http://www.cns11643.gov.tw/).

However, the wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNS_11643
says "In practice, variants of Big5 are de facto standard.", so perhaps
there's no real need for the codec after all.

The German version of the wiki page mentions that CNS11643 is the legal
standard charset, but not used much in practice because it needs 3 bytes
per glyph instead of just 2 for Big5 variants.

The Chinese version of the wiki page says more or less the same:

http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-TW&u=http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25E5%259C%258B%25E5%25AE%25B6%25E6%25A8%2599%25E6%25BA%2596%25E4%25B8%25AD%25E6%2596%2587%25E4%25BA%25A4%25E6%258F%259B%25E7%25A2%25BC&ei=C52_SZepPJKTsAbw8PW5DQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2525E5%25259C%25258B%2525E5%2525AE%2525B6%2525E6%2525A8%252599%2525E6%2525BA%252596%2525E4%2525B8%2525AD%2525E6%252596%252587%2525E4%2525BA%2525A4%2525E6%25258F%25259B%2525E7%2525A2%2525BC%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG