This is almost identical to: http://bugs.python.org/issue854511
However, tis602, which is mentioned in the orginal bug report, is not an alias to cp874. Therefore, I propose the following:

import encodings

aliases = encodings.aliases.aliases
more_aliases = {'ibm874'     : 'cp874',
                'iso_8859_11': 'cp874',
                'iso8859_11' : 'cp874',
                'windows_874': 'cp874',
               }
aliases.update(more_aliases)