[issue17254] add thai encoding aliases to encodings.aliases

Benjamin Wood added the comment: Bumping this again. I'd like to try and understand why this change can not or has not been approved. I added the technical info here to the github PR. Is there a shortage of reviewers? What can I do to help speed up the process

[issue17254] add thai encoding aliases to encodings.aliases

Benjamin Wood added the comment: This is an easy alias to a valid codepage. I supplied proof that they are the same. I don't understand why this has been allowed to languish for 9 months. Did I miss something? Is there more work I need to do? Thanks

[issue17254] add thai encoding aliases to encodings.aliases

Benjamin Wood added the comment: I've created the codepage alias 874. This is only pending is a merge into the mainline. Thanks. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue17

[issue17254] add thai encoding aliases to encodings.aliases

Benjamin Wood added the comment: >From what I can tell cp874 != ibm_874 != iso_8859_11 What I can say is that the current cp874 is the implementation of the windows_874 code page. The page itself references the microsoft code page, and also contains the appropriate characters (like E