[issue6772] Missing alias utf-8 in Standard Encodings list.

Georg Brandl added the comment: I made a compromise in r74545: 'utf-8' is now used as an example to demonstrate the statement Marc-Andre cited. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6772] Missing alias utf-8 in Standard Encodings list.

Mintaka added the comment: True, but this one is much more used then others. So frequently, that look like other names are aliases. Maybe it is good reason to mention it explicitly. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue6772] Missing alias utf-8 in Standard Encodings list.

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: >From the quoted page: """ Notice that spelling alternatives that only differ in case or use a hyphen instead of an underscore are also valid aliases. """ -- nosy: +lemburg resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___

[issue6772] Missing alias utf-8 in Standard Encodings list.

New submission from Mintaka : On page http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings (and on the pages for older versions too) in the table with review, is missing higly used alias "utf-8" On that row is only: Codec Aliases Languages utf_8 U8, UTF, utf8 all