Fail codecs.lookup() on 'mbcs' and 'tactis'

Richard Brodie R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk
Thu Aug 4 10:59:01 EDT 2005


<jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.2717.1123167085.10512.python-list at python.org...

> I don't know what 'tactis' is, but 'mbcs' is not a portable character set name.
> It's a special character set name on win32, which refers to some system-specific
> multibyte character set.
>
> I don't think these "failures" are a Python bug.

I suppose, for consistency, it should ideally raise LookupError, though





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