New submission from Rafael Belo :
There is a mismatch in specification and behavior in some windows encodings.
Some older windows codepages specifications present "UNDEFINED" mapping,
whereas in reality, they present another behavior which is updated in a section
named "bestfit
Rafael Belo added the comment:
As encodings are indeed a complex topic, debating this seems like a necessity.
I researched this topic when i found an encoding issue regarding a mysql
connector: https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient/pull/502
In MySQL itself there is a mislabel of "l
Rafael Belo added the comment:
Eryk
Regarding the codecsmodule.c i don't really know its inner workings and how it
is connected to other modules, and as of it, changes on that level for this use
case are not critical. But it is nice to think and evaluate on that level too,
since