[New-bugs-announce] [issue13432] Encoding alias "unicode"

[kxroberto]

New submission from kxroberto <kxroberto at users.sourceforge.net>:

"unicode" seems not to be an official unicode encoding name alias.
Yet it is quite frequent on the web - and obviously means UTF-8. 
(search '"text/html; charset=unicode"' in Google)
Chrome and IE display it as UTF-8.  (Mozilla as ASCII, thus mixed up chars).

Should it be added in to aliases.py ?

--- ./aliases.py
+++ ./aliases.py
@@ -511,6 +511,7 @@
     'utf8'               : 'utf_8',
     'utf8_ucs2'          : 'utf_8',
     'utf8_ucs4'          : 'utf_8',
+    'unicode'            : 'utf_8',
 
     # uu_codec codec
     'uu'                 : 'uu_codec',

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messages: 147936
nosy: kxroberto
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Encoding alias "unicode"

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