Re: [Python-ideas] [issue33865] [EASY] Missing code page aliases: "unknown encoding: 874"

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 21 Jun 2018, at 09:17, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: 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. The user shouldn’t have to do anything other than install Python. IMHO were doing something wrong when the python interpreter doesn’t start up with a default system configuration (when the user explicitly sets a bogus PYTHONIOENCODING or locale all bets are off, although even then warning about and then ignoring bad settings would be more userfriendly than the current behavior) 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. The issue is making slow progress. I’m not Windows users myself and therefore cannot easily experiment with what’s going on (other than by reading the code). Ronald

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