From: Georg Brandl Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:14:29 +0000 (+0000) Subject: #6772: mention utf-8 as utf8 alias. X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~626 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=87296628f16438c1a556a026036043d70b8784f0;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git #6772: mention utf-8 as utf8 alias. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 5b306829b889..589fa0ff1850 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -863,7 +863,8 @@ or with dictionaries as mapping tables. The following table lists the codecs by name, together with a few common aliases, and the languages for which the encoding is likely used. Neither the list of aliases nor the list of languages is meant to be exhaustive. Notice that spelling alternatives that only differ in -case or use a hyphen instead of an underscore are also valid aliases. +case or use a hyphen instead of an underscore are also valid aliases; therefore, +e.g. ``'utf-8'`` is a valid alias for the ``'utf_8'`` codec. Many of the character sets support the same languages. They vary in individual characters (e.g. whether the EURO SIGN is supported or not), and in the