alias macintosh to mac_roman #843590
diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index 31e0424..e734fee 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
| mac_latin2 | maclatin2, maccentraleurope | Central and Eastern Europe |
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
-| mac_roman | macroman | Western Europe |
+| mac_roman | macroman, macintosh | Western Europe |
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
| mac_turkish | macturkish | Turkish |
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
diff --git a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
index 9461e5f..a8c48df 100644
--- a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@
'maclatin2' : 'mac_latin2',
# mac_roman codec
+ 'macintosh' : 'macintosh',
'macroman' : 'mac_roman',
# mac_turkish codec
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3512e86..019cd4b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
+
- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with
surrogateescape error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.