Re: [Python-Dev] cpython (merge 3.2 -> default): Avoid codec spelling issues by just using the utf-8 default.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote: ..

(also, I don't understand the spelling issue: "utf-8" just works)

This is probably referring to the fact that while encode() accepts many spelling variants, some are short-circuited in C code while others require codec lookup implemented in python.