Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> added the comment: I am writing a PR with an internal link. I decided that linking to Standard Encodings is sufficient. The Python Text Encodings section follows that. Anyone wanting to use any of those can experiment to see which work. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue24563> _______________________________________