Ronald Oussoren writes: > Possibly just for the “cp…” encodings, but IMHO only if we confirm > that the code to look for the preferred encoding returns a codepage > number on Windows and changing that code leads to worse results > than adding numeric aliases for the “cp…” encodings.
Almost all of the CPxxx encodings have multiple aliases[1], so I just don't see the point unless numeric-only code page designations are baked in to default "locales"[2] in official releases by major OS vendors. And probably not even then, since it should be easy enough to provide a proper "locale" and/or PYTHONIOENCODING setting. Of course we should help the reporter figure out what's going on and help them fix it with appropriate system configuration. If that doesn't work, then (and *only then*) we could think about doing a stupid thing. Footnotes: [1] Granted, "874" only has "windows-874" registered with the IANA, so it's kind of salient. Still, if numeric-only aliases were a "thing", surely we'd have heard about it by now---I first encountered Thai encodings in 1990 (ok, that was TIS 620, but windows-874 is basically TIS plus Microsoft punctuation extensions IIRC), Thais do use computers in their native language a lot. [2] Scare quotes to refer to appropriate platform facilities, as neither Windows nor Mac OS is strictly conformant to POSIX on this. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
