from email.charset.ALIASES most of them failed to be recognize by codecs module.


>>> for i in email.charset.ALIASES.keys():
...     try:
...         codecs.lookup(i)
...     except LookupError:
...         print("Not recognized by codecs : alias {} mapped to {}".format(i, email.charset.ALIASES[i]))
...     
... 
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin-8 mapped to iso-8859-14
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin-9 mapped to iso-8859-15
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin-2 mapped to iso-8859-2
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin-3 mapped to iso-8859-3
<codecs.CodecInfo object for encoding iso8859-1 at 0x10160af58>
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin-6 mapped to iso-8859-10
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin-7 mapped to iso-8859-13
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin-4 mapped to iso-8859-4
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin-5 mapped to iso-8859-9
<codecs.CodecInfo object for encoding euc_jp at 0x1016260b8>
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin-10 mapped to iso-8859-16
<codecs.CodecInfo object for encoding ascii at 0x101626120>
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin_10 mapped to iso-8859-16
<codecs.CodecInfo object for encoding iso8859-1 at 0x10160aae0>
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin_2 mapped to iso-8859-2
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin_3 mapped to iso-8859-3
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin_4 mapped to iso-8859-4
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin_5 mapped to iso-8859-9
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin_6 mapped to iso-8859-10
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin_7 mapped to iso-8859-13
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin_8 mapped to iso-8859-14
Not recognized by codecs : alias latin_9 mapped to iso-8859-15
<codecs.CodecInfo object for encoding cp949 at 0x101626390>
<codecs.CodecInfo object for encoding euc_kr at 0x101626530>


So basically apart from latin-1 all the latin* failed to be recognized by codecs.