Add missing encoding aliases. It may be contributed upstream at some point, but the suitability (or lack thereof) has not yet been determined. diff -wpruN --no-dereference '--exclude=*.orig' a~/Lib/encodings/aliases.py a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py --- a~/Lib/encodings/aliases.py 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +++ a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py 1970-01-01 00:00:00 @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ aliases = { # cp1251 codec '1251' : 'cp1251', + 'ansi_1251' : 'cp1251', 'windows_1251' : 'cp1251', # cp1252 codec @@ -234,6 +235,7 @@ aliases = { 'u_jis' : 'euc_jp', # euc_kr codec + '5601' : 'euc_kr', 'euckr' : 'euc_kr', 'korean' : 'euc_kr', 'ksc5601' : 'euc_kr', @@ -484,6 +486,7 @@ aliases = { 'shiftjis' : 'shift_jis', 'sjis' : 'shift_jis', 's_jis' : 'shift_jis', + 'pck' : 'shift_jis', # shift_jis_2004 codec 'shiftjis2004' : 'shift_jis_2004', @@ -500,6 +503,7 @@ aliases = { 'tis_620_0' : 'tis_620', 'tis_620_2529_0' : 'tis_620', 'tis_620_2529_1' : 'tis_620', + 'tis620.2533' : 'tis_620', 'iso_ir_166' : 'tis_620', # utf_16 codec