[bug-gettext] [bug #50357] xgettext doesn't recognise encoding aliases Python supports

URL: Summary: xgettext doesn't recognise encoding aliases Python supports Project: GNU gettext Submitted by: gsnedders Submitted on: Sun 19 Feb 2017 10:11:55 PM UTC Category: Python

[bug-gettext] [bug #50357] xgettext doesn't recognise encoding aliases Python supports

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #50357 (project gettext): https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings documents the set of encodings Python's standard library supports, and all Python implementations to my knowledge support the same set of encodings for Python source files. Notably,

[bug-gettext] [bug #50357] xgettext doesn't recognise encoding aliases Python supports

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #50357 (project gettext): I'll also point out that character set name matching is standardised in various places; for example in UTR #22: . Per that, "utf8" and "UTF-8" refer to the same encoding.