Georg Brandl <ge...@python.org> added the comment: I don't think this is a good idea. Accepting all common forms for encoding names means that you can usually give Python an encoding name from, e.g. a HTML page, or any other file or system that specifies an encoding. If we only supported, e.g., "UTF-8" and no other spelling, that would make life much more difficult. If you look into encodings/__init__.py, you can see that throwing out all non-alphanumerics is a conscious design choice in encoding name normalization.
The only thing I don't know is why "utf" is an alias for utf-8. Assigning to Marc-Andre, who implemented most of codecs. ---------- assignee: georg.brandl -> lemburg nosy: +lemburg resolution: -> rejected status: open -> pending _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5902> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
