bpo-46659: Update the test on the mbcs codec alias by vstinner · Pull Request #31168 · python/cpython (original) (raw)

This was never true before. With 1252 as my ANSI code page, I checked codecs.lookup('cp1252') in 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.9, and 3.10, and none of them return the "mbcs" encoding. It's not equivalent, and not supposed to be. The implementation of "cp1252" should be cross-platform, regardless of whether we're on a Windows system with 1252 as the ANSI code page, as opposed to a Windows system with some other ANSI code page, or a Linux or macOS system.

The differences are that "mbcs" maps every byte, whereas our code-page encodings do not map undefined bytes, and the "replace" handler of "mbcs" uses a best-fit mapping (e.g. "α" -> "a") when encoding text, instead of mapping all undefined characters to "?".