gh-61456: Add Thai language codec aliases (#15079)

Adding aliases for Thai language support. The current code page is an implementation of the windows code page.
This will alias '874', 'ms874', and 'windows_874' to cp874, adding Thai language support for those users.

Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>

diff --git a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
index 664b317697eb95485ff70e756a9328526c507c36..a94bb270671e3777f4c176065c431fcf0ae12a00 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
@@ -204,6 +204,11 @@ aliases = {
     'csibm869'           : 'cp869',
     'ibm869'             : 'cp869',
 
+    # cp874 codec
+    '874'                : 'cp874',
+    'ms874'              : 'cp874',
+    'windows_874'        : 'cp874',
+
     # cp932 codec
     '932'                : 'cp932',
     'ms932'              : 'cp932',

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-05-13-58-10.bpo-17254.11xglZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-05-13-58-10.bpo-17254.11xglZ.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..ac66f02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-05-13-58-10.bpo-17254.11xglZ.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Added aliases for Thai Language using Microsoft Code Pages.