iconv_codec 3rd generation

[hyeshik]

BPO	720585
Nosy	@hyeshik
Files	python-iconvcodec-r3.diff.gz: the patch python-iconvcodec-r3.1.diff.gz: the patch (fixed some test cases)

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title = 'iconv_codec 3rd generation'
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[hyeshik]

Full featured and standalone iconv_codec
implementation.

• Supports UCS, UCS-SWAPPED, UTF-8 unicode
  encodings with runtime detection.
• Supports even _sane_ StreamReader and
  StreamWriter.

Tested on {Free,Net}BSD, Debian Linux, MacOS X,
Solaris 9 and Cygwin

[hyeshik]

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If the poor libiconv implementations are concerned, how about
enabling iconv_codec only on platforms that we can expect
sane iconv?

•        if platform not in ['darwin'] and iconv_incs is not None:
  

+ if platform in
['freebsd3', 'freebsd4', 'freebsd5', 'netbsd1',
+ 'linux2', 'sunos5'] and iconv_incs is not
None:

[hyeshik]

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I'll submit CJKCodecs instead of this.