[issue8898] The email package should defer to the codecs module for all aliases

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Shashwat Anand wrote:
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> Shashwat Anand <anand.shashwat at gmail.com> added the comment:
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>> We need to add aliases for those codecs. The current aliases
>> list only supports the format "latinN" for N in 1-10.
> 
> latinN means latin1 to latin10 ? 

Yes. We should add aliases for the format "latin_N" as well.

> But latin_1 is a recognized alias.
> 
>>>> codecs.lookup('latin_1')
> <codecs.CodecInfo object for encoding iso8859-1 at 0x10160aae0>

Yes, since that's the native name of the dedicated Python codec
for ISO-8859-1.

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