[ python-Bugs-969415 ] CJK codecs list incomplete

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Bugs item #969415, was opened at 2004-06-08 23:54
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Mike Brown (mike_j_brown)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: CJK codecs list incomplete

Initial Comment:
http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/whatsnew/node7.
html states that various CJK encodings have been 
added, but the list given there does not match the list 
on 
http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/node128.html.

In particular, missing from the latter list are all of the 
aliases with hyphens:

shift-jis, shift-jisx0213, euc-jp, euc-jisx0213, iso-2022-
jp, iso-2022-jp-1, iso-2022-jp-2, iso-2022-jp-3, iso-
2022-jp-ext, euc-kr, iso-2022-kr

Since I successfully ran codecs.lookup() tests on a few 
of the hyphenated aliases, I assume that the omission 
of the hyphenated versions in the docs is merely an 
oversight.

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>Comment By: Mike Brown (mike_j_brown)
Date: 2004-06-09 01:25

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I see no reason to omit any aliases that are recognized, 
especially when the aliases in question are, more often than 
not, the IANA's preferred MIME name as shown at 
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets.

I was looking in the docs to see if Python 2.4 was going to 
support 'euc-jp', and was dismayed to see 'euc_jp' and 
variants but no 'euc-jp'. I had to obtain and install 2.4a0 to 
test to find out that it was just a documentation problem.

Please consider listing all realnames and aliases.

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Comment By: Hye-Shik Chang (perky)
Date: 2004-06-09 00:10

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Reopened to consider the consistence with non-cjk codecs.
All the non-cjk codecs are written with hyphen even if their
realname is with underscore. (eg. iso8859-1 and iso8859_1.py)
Will changing cjk codecs's codec/alias names to use not
underscores but hyphens make docs more friendly?

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Comment By: Hye-Shik Chang (perky)
Date: 2004-06-09 00:01

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All hyphens are translated as underscores in encoding lookups.
So we may not need to provide encoding list with hyphens
additionally.

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