[Python-Dev] cpython (merge 3.2 -> default): Avoid codec spelling issues by just using the utf-8 default.

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
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> (also, I don't understand the spelling issue: "utf-8" just works)

This is probably referring to the fact that while encode() accepts
many spelling variants, some are short-circuited in C code while
others require codec lookup implemented in python.