[issue6058] Add cp65001 to encodings/aliases.py

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
> Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:
> 
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding(VS.80).aspx
>>
>> Looks like we could add a few more aliases for other encodings as well.
> 
> I wouldn't trust this table. Microsoft is on record of implementing the
> code pages with slight variations compared to other references for some
> encodings (in particular the Asian ones). So unless there is an actual
> documented need for a certain alias (and preferably a demonstration that
> Microsoft's interpretation of the code page is the same as Python's),
> I would advise against adding such aliases.

Fair enough.

Could someone with some IronPython/.NET foo check whether the
code pages are the same as the Python codecs ?

The above page has some sample code to get started and IronPython
provides easy access to both the .NET codecs and the Python ones.

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

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