diff options
| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2024-11-18 17:45:25 (GMT) |
|---|---|---|
| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-11-18 17:45:25 (GMT) |
| commit | f7ef0203d44acb21ab1c5ff0c3e15f9727862760 (patch) | |
| tree | ed2d56bf28e690ba1bfb9bd3bf96491b8669722d /Doc | |
| parent | 8fe1926164932f868e6e907ad72a74c2f2372b07 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-f7ef0203d44acb21ab1c5ff0c3e15f9727862760.zip cpython-f7ef0203d44acb21ab1c5ff0c3e15f9727862760.tar.gz cpython-f7ef0203d44acb21ab1c5ff0c3e15f9727862760.tar.bz2 | |
gh-123803: Support arbitrary code page encodings on Windows (GH-123804)
If the cpXXX encoding is not directly implemented in Python, fall back
to use the Windows-specific API codecs.code_page_encode() and
codecs.code_page_decode().
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/codecs.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst | 3 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 2cfd8a1..a129a26 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -1042,6 +1042,10 @@ 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; therefore, e.g. ``'utf-8'`` is a valid alias for the ``'utf_8'`` codec. +On Windows, ``cpXXX`` codecs are available for all code pages. +But only codecs listed in the following table are guarantead to exist on +other platforms. + .. impl-detail:: Some common encodings can bypass the codecs lookup machinery to @@ -1307,6 +1311,9 @@ particular, the following variants typically exist: .. versionchanged:: 3.8 ``cp65001`` is now an alias to ``utf_8``. +.. versionchanged:: 3.14 + On Windows, ``cpXXX`` codecs are now available for all code pages. + Python Specific Encodings ------------------------- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst index 958efbe..8196250 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst @@ -194,6 +194,9 @@ Other language changes They raise an error if the argument is a string. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`84978`.) +* All Windows code pages are now supported as "cpXXX" codecs on Windows. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`123803`.) + * :class:`super` objects are now :mod:`pickleable <pickle>` and :mod:`copyable <copy>`. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`125767`.) |