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Author vstinner
Recipients ZackerySpytz, eryksun, izbyshev, paul.moore, steve.dower, terry.reedy, tim.golden, vstinner, zach.ware
Date 2019-05-10.02:11:35
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> Before Vista, the code page 65001 behaved differently than official UTF-8 codec. Vista changed that. Maybe it's time to remove Lib/encodings/cp65001.py and make it an alias to utf_8 codec: see https://bugs.python.org/issue36778#msg341531

FYI it's exactly what I did:

New changeset d267ac20c309e37d85a986b4417aa8ab4d05dabc by Victor Stinner in branch 'master':
bpo-36778: cp65001 encoding becomes an alias to utf_8 (GH-13230)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d267ac20c309e37d85a986b4417aa8ab4d05dabc
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