[Python-ideas] [issue33865] [EASY] Missing code page aliases: "unknown encoding: 874"
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Sat Jun 16 06:59:24 EDT 2018
> It is easy to test it. Encoding/decoding with '874' should give the
> same result as with 'cp874'.
I know it is too late to remove that feature, but why do we support
digit-only IDs for encodings? They can be ambiguous. If Wikipedia is
correct, cp874 (also known as ibm874) and Windows-874 (also known as
cp1162) are different:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-11#Code_page_874
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-11#Code_page_1162
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Steve
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