Issue 6772: Missing alias utf-8 in Standard Encodings list. (original) (raw)

Created on 2009-08-24 07:40 by mintaka, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg91904 - (view)	Author: Mintaka (mintaka)	Date: 2009-08-24 07:40
On page http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings (and on the pages for older versions too) in the table with review, is missing higly used alias "utf-8" On that row is only: Codec Aliases Languages utf_8 U8, UTF, utf8 all languages And probably there should be: utf_8 U8, UTF, utf8, utf-8 all languages
msg91905 - (view)	Author: Marc-Andre Lemburg (lemburg) *	Date: 2009-08-24 07:44
From the quoted page: """ Notice that spelling alternatives that only differ in case or use a hyphen instead of an underscore are also valid aliases. """
msg91906 - (view)	Author: Mintaka (mintaka)	Date: 2009-08-24 07:55
True, but this one is much more used then others. So frequently, that look like other names are aliases. Maybe it is good reason to mention it explicitly.
msg91926 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2009-08-24 17:15
I made a compromise in r74545: 'utf-8' is now used as an example to demonstrate the statement Marc-Andre cited.