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  r74613 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:34:27 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6814: remove traces of xrange().
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  r74615 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:42:40 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 9 lines

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    r74614 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:40:54 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    #6813: better documentation for numberless string formats.
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  r74619 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 10:02:03 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6754: remove old struct member nb_inplace_divide.
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  r74620 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 10:03:26 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6732: fix return value of module init function in example.
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  r74622 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 10:11:14 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 73 lines

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    r74542 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-23 23:28:56 +0200 (So, 23 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    Restore alphabetic order.
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    r74544 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:12:30 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    #6775: fix python.org URLs in README.
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    r74545 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:14:29 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    #6772: mention utf-8 as utf8 alias.
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    r74546 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:20:40 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    #6725: spell "namespace" consistently.
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    r74547 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:22:05 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    #6718: fix example.
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    r74548 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:24:27 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    #6677: mention "deleting" as an alias for removing files.
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    r74550 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:48:40 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    #6677: note that rmdir only removes empty directories.
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    r74554 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-27 20:59:02 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    Typo fix.
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    r74555 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-27 21:02:43 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    #6787: reference fix.
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    r74578 | tarek.ziade | 2009-08-29 15:33:21 +0200 (Sa, 29 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    fixed #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts pipe
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    r74588 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-30 10:35:01 +0200 (So, 30 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    #6803: fix old name.
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    r74590 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-30 13:51:53 +0200 (So, 30 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    #6801: fix copy-paste oversight.
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    r74603 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-31 08:38:29 +0200 (Mo, 31 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    other -> others where multiple arguments are accepted.
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    r74616 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:46:26 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    #6808: clarification.
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    r74617 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:53:37 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    #6765: hint that log(x, base) is not very sophisticated.
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    r74618 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 10:00:47 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    #6810: add a link to the section about frame objects instead of just a description where to find it.
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    r74621 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 10:06:03 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    #6638: fix wrong parameter name and markup a class.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index b8a8ccc..6e02063 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -891,7 +891,8 @@ 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