[issue13612] xml.etree.ElementTree says unknown encoding of a regular encoding

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment:

The patch goes in the right direction: consistently reject non-8bit encodings which the current implementation does not support.
- please add a unit test
- remove usage of PyUnicodeObject and the "Stupid to access directly" comment, they are outdated.

Real support for GBK is more work, http://wang.yuxuan.org/blog/?itemid=63 shows how to set a conversion callback. It will difficult to implement in the general case, see my older comment.

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