[issue13432] Encoding alias "unicode"

[Georg Brandl]

Georg Brandl <georg at python.org> added the comment:

The mapping "unicode" -> "utf-8" is simply not defined unambiguously, in addition to being factually wrong. For example, when Microsoft talks about Unicode they mean UTF-16.

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